In 2025, fire departments serving Far Hills responded to 21 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Gas leak (natural gas or LPG) lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 81% of all calls.
Jul peaks. Jun dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
82 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 14 | — | |
| 2022 | 14 | +0.0% | |
| 2023* | 9 | — | |
| 2024 | 24 | — | |
| 2025 | 21 | -12.5% |
* Well below Far Hills'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 Far Hills departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Far Hills sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 29,107 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 7,949 | 46.4 mi | |
| 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,600 | 46.2 mi | |
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,300 | 48.3 mi | |
| 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,240 | 46.7 mi | |
| 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,500 | 48.8 mi | |
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,500 | 49.1 mi | |
| 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,000 | 46.1 mi | |
| 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 995 | 49.5 mi | |
| 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 812 | 48.4 mi | |
| 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 750 | 32.6 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 647 | 45.5 mi | |
| 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 641 | 43.1 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 | 07931 | 82 |
Six New Jersey cities with population within ±25% of Far Hills. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
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.