In 2025, fire departments serving Altamont responded to 27 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 67% of all calls.
Oct peaks. Feb dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
97 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 3 | — | |
| 2022 | 28 | — | |
| 2023 | 16 | -42.9% | |
| 2024 | 23 | +43.8% | |
| 2025 | 27 | +17.4% |
* Well below Altamont'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 4 building fires Altamont departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Altamont sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 31,120 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,480 | 21.0 mi | |
| 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 2,083 | 47.6 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,080 | 16.2 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,035 | 17.2 mi | |
| 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,018 | 31.1 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,747 | 17.9 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,560 | 10.6 mi | |
| 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,167 | 32.6 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,120 | 25.7 mi | |
| 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1,100 | 34.0 mi | |
| 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,075 | 31.6 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,050 | 17.8 mi |
Top 3 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six Tennessee cities with population within ±25% of Altamont. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Altamont.
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.