In 2025, fire departments serving Champlain responded to 21 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Power line down lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 91% of all calls.
Feb peaks. Mar dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
68 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 0 | — | |
| 2022 | 21 | — | |
| 2023 | 15 | -28.6% | |
| 2024 | 11 | -26.7% | |
| 2025 | 21 | +90.9% |
* Well below Champlain'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 0 building fires Champlain departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Champlain sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 1,817 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | 547 | 11.6 mi | |
| 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 330 | 45.1 mi | |
| 2001 | Natural | 80 | 34.8 mi | |
| 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 77 | 45.1 mi | |
| 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | 60 | 45.1 mi | |
| 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 55 | 19.7 mi | |
| 2001 | Natural | 52 | 42.9 mi | |
| 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 51 | 12.7 mi | |
| 2007 | Debris and open burning | 50 | 12.7 mi | |
| 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | 50 | 31.7 mi | |
| 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 45 | 6.9 mi | |
| 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 44 | 35.6 mi |
Top 2 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six New York cities with population within ±25% of Champlain. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Champlain.
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.