In 2025, fire departments serving Chazy responded to 14 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 100% of all calls.
Oct peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
66 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 2 | — | |
| 2022 | 25 | — | |
| 2023 | 19 | -24.0% | |
| 2024* | 6 | — | |
| 2025 | 14 | — |
* Well below Chazy'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 Chazy departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 4 building fires investigators classified across 2021–2025. The room or location where ignition occurred — kitchens, bedrooms, exterior, vehicle areas — tells you where to focus prevention.
| # | Area of origin | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bathroom, checkroom, lavatory, locker room | 1 | 25.0% | |
| 2 | Storage: supplies or tools; dead storage | 1 | 25.0% | |
| 3 | Substructure area or space, crawl space | 1 | 25.0% | |
| 4 | Wildland, woods | 1 | 25.0% |
NFIRS Heat Source (HEAT_SOURC) — the physical thing that started it. Spark or ember from operating equipment, an open flame, smoking materials, or hot embers from a fireplace are the leading culprits nationwide. Here's the Chazy mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 1 | 25.0% | |
| 2 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 1 | 25.0% | |
| 3 | Arcing | 1 | 25.0% | |
| 4 | Undetermined | 1 | 25.0% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Chazy sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 1,891 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 | 8.8 mi | |
| 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 330 | 38.5 mi | |
| 2001 | Natural | 80 | 28.0 mi | |
| 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 77 | 38.5 mi | |
| 1994 | Smoking | 75 | 48.2 mi | |
| 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | 60 | 38.5 mi | |
| 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 55 | 17.5 mi | |
| 2001 | Natural | 52 | 36.1 mi | |
| 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 51 | 9.4 mi | |
| 2007 | Debris and open burning | 50 | 9.4 mi | |
| 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | 50 | 28.0 mi | |
| 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 45 | 0.0 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 Chazy. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Chazy.
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.