In 2025, fire departments serving Canaan responded to 10 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Chimney or flue fire, confined to chimney or flue lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 90% of all calls.
Jan peaks. Mar dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
25 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 | — | |
| 2022* | 0 | — | |
| 2023 | 9 | — | |
| 2024* | 2 | — | |
| 2025 | 10 | — |
* Well below Canaan'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 Canaan departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Canaan sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 849 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Debris and open burning | 77 | 39.4 mi | |
| 2016 | Debris and open burning | 61 | 37.7 mi | |
| 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 57 | 34.1 mi | |
| 1992 | Debris and open burning | 50 | 44.0 mi | |
| 2015 | Debris and open burning | 48 | 31.5 mi | |
| 2016 | Natural | 43 | 38.8 mi | |
| 2003 | Debris and open burning | 40 | 40.2 mi | |
| 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 | 11.9 mi | |
| 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 | 13.0 mi | |
| 2016 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 35 | 32.7 mi | |
| 2006 | Debris and open burning | 34 | 34.8 mi | |
| 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 33 | 47.7 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 | 04924 | 25 |
Six Maine cities with population within ±25% of Canaan. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Canaan.
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.