In 2025, fire departments serving Adams Center responded to 36 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Aircraft standby lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 92% of all calls.
Oct peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
174 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024. $15K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 11 | — | |
| 2022 | 38 | — | |
| 2023 | 29 | -23.7% | |
| 2024 | 60 | +106.9% | |
| 2025 | 36 | -40.0% |
* Well below Adams Center's usual volume. That almost always means one or more departments didn't submit a full year to NFIRS, not that fires dropped, so no year-over-year change is shown for it.
For the 1 building fires Adams Center departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Adams Center sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 20 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 633 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Smoking | 75 | 4.3 mi | |
| 2018 | Debris and open burning | 68 | 46.3 mi | |
| 2001 | Debris and open burning | 66 | 43.3 mi | |
| 2007 | Natural | 65 | 49.3 mi | |
| 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 | 18.5 mi | |
| 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 39 | 40.2 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 35 | 41.6 mi | |
| 2008 | Smoking | 30 | 32.3 mi | |
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 | 8.0 mi | |
| 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 23 | 35.7 mi | |
| 2006 | Debris and open burning | 21 | 42.5 mi | |
| 1992 | Smoking | 21 | 47.3 mi |
Top 1 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
| # | ZIP | 5-yr incidents | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13606 | 174 |
Six New York cities with population within ±25% of Adams Center. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
2 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Adams Center.
A 30-minute weekend can cut your home's exposure substantially. These four checklists are a good starting point.
Numbers reflect incidents reported by participating fire departments to the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) Public Data Release for calendar year 2025. NFIRS is voluntary — about 23,000 of roughly 30,000 US fire departments report — so totals are a strong indicator, not a complete census. Per-capita comparisons use 2023 ACS population estimates. Wildland fire data complements NFIRS with NIFC and USFS perimeters. Active-fire counts come from a dated NIFC snapshot, not a live feed.