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States by arson rate

Oregon ranks first with 27.1 reported arson offenses per 100,000 residents in 2025, according to the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer.

All 51 jurisdictions with a reported arson rate for 2025, ranked, with the offense count beside each rate.

Arson per 100,000 residents · 2025

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Jurisdictions ranked by reported arson rate, 2025
Rank
1	Oregon	27.1	1,134	37.7%	4,188,755	98.0%
2	Alaska	21.1	155	27.7%	734,745	99.7%
3	Hawaii	20.9	299	16.7%	1,432,820	100.0%
4	Colorado	20.5	1,219	34.7%	5,960,853	99.1%
5	California	18.7	7,350	35.0%	39,340,551	100.0%
6	Kansas	14.8	418	26.6%	2,822,529	94.8%
7	New Mexico	14.1	280	22.9%	1,996,020	93.9%
8	Oklahoma	14.0	577	23.4%	4,118,993	99.9%
9	Nevada	13.3	436	43.3%	3,270,673	99.6%
10	Missouri	12.6	780	21.9%	6,189,965	98.7%
11	Alabama	12.2	628	19.4%	5,154,746	99.3%
12	Montana	12.0	137	39.4%	1,144,694	100.0%
13	Washington	11.8	923	28.6%	7,803,528	97.5%
14	North Carolina	11.6	1,259	28.8%	10,816,211	96.6%
15	Maine	11.5	160	36.9%	1,395,502	98.6%
16	Michigan	11.2	1,097	31.3%	9,809,193	96.9%
17	Arkansas	11.0	337	22.3%	3,066,096	98.4%
18	Nebraska	11.0	219	45.2%	2,006,672	99.4%
19	Mississippi	10.5	252	23.4%	2,406,163	81.5%
20	Tennessee	10.3	750	25.7%	7,285,816	99.6%
21	Pennsylvania	9.9	1,277	33.3%	12,954,848	99.2%
22	Illinois	9.6	1,158	22.6%	12,042,483	94.7%
23	South Carolina	9.3	503	39.8%	5,367,423	96.4%
24	Minnesota	8.7	505	34.7%	5,818,696	99.8%
25	Arizona	8.6	642	33.6%	7,457,428	97.8%
26	Indiana	8.5	521	20.0%	6,110,151	87.6%
27	Delaware	8.5	90	51.1%	1,059,908	100.0%
28	West Virginia	8.4	129	27.9%	1,542,126	87.3%
29	Utah	8.4	292	41.4%	3,500,920	98.9%
30	Texas	8.0	2,513	23.9%	31,431,832	99.1%
31	Rhode Island	7.8	86	45.3%	1,101,063	98.8%
32	Ohio	7.3	807	25.7%	11,096,234	93.2%
33	Kentucky	7.3	335	37.6%	4,606,403	100.0%
34	North Dakota	7.2	57	49.1%	789,819	98.8%
35	South Dakota	7.2	60	46.7%	839,130	89.7%
36	Vermont	6.9	44	65.9%	643,250	99.8%
37	Iowa	6.7	209	37.3%	3,142,936	97.1%
38	New York	6.4	1,269	36.3%	19,756,731	98.8%
39	Wyoming	6.1	33	30.3%	544,425	92.5%
40	Maryland	6.1	382	39.0%	6,265,347	100.0%
41	New Hampshire	6.1	86	41.9%	1,413,950	99.9%
42	Georgia	6.1	617	25.3%	10,234,544	90.5%
43	Idaho	5.7	114	43.9%	2,002,230	98.6%
44	Virginia	5.7	502	45.8%	8,878,997	100.0%
45	Louisiana	5.6	201	43.3%	3,602,534	78.0%
46	Wisconsin	5.3	309	35.6%	5,798,929	97.1%
47	Connecticut	4.7	172	43.0%	3,688,496	100.0%
48	Massachusetts	4.5	320	32.5%	7,138,345	99.8%
49	New Jersey	3.2	295	43.1%	9,317,069	97.6%
50	Florida	3.1	617	42.9%	19,799,628	84.4%
51	District of Columbia	0.4	3	66.7%	693,645	100.0%

How the rate is computed

Rate denominator: the population the reporting agencies served, which is the FBI’s own population figure for the state multiplied by the share of it those agencies covered. It is not the state’s resident population, and it is the same denominator the FBI uses to compute its own rates. The coverage column is that share; a state below 90% is not measuring the same thing as a state near 100%.

How to read this

Arson is the least completely reported offense here. It requires a fire to be investigated and classified as deliberate before it is counted, so a low figure can mean fewer fires set or fewer fires investigated, and this data cannot tell them apart.
The legacy UCR Summary property crime index excluded arson for that reason. The Crime Data Explorer includes it: our property crime total equals burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft and arson added together, in all 2,183 state-years and national years where every part is reported. A property crime figure from before the Explorer is therefore not directly comparable with this one.
Rates, not counts. Ranking by the number of offenses would rank states by how many people live in them.
The thinnest rate here rests on 3 offenses, in District of Columbia. One more would move that state’s rate by 33.3%, so the bottom of a ranking built on counts that small is a statement about how few were reported rather than about how they compare.
The coverage column is the share of the state’s population living in a reporting agency’s jurisdiction. Below 90%, both the count and the rate describe part of the state, and a state sits where it does partly because fewer of its agencies reported.
The District of Columbia is a single city and is ranked alongside states because the FBI reports it that way. Comparing a city with a state mixes urban and rural populations in a proportion no state has.
A jurisdiction that reported no arson rate for 2025 is not listed. An absent row means the FBI published no rate, not a rate of zero.
Reporting to the FBI is voluntary. A state lower on this list may be one where less was reported to police, not one where less happened, and this data cannot tell those apart.
This offense is part of the property crime total and is not additional to it.

The same ranking for every other offense

Sources

FBI Crime Data Explorer API — Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services Division · Public domain — U.S. Government work · retrieved September 19, 2026

Compiled automatically from FBI Crime Data Explorer API by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

Data retrieved September 19, 2026