In 2025, fire departments serving Friendship responded to 15 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Building fires lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 67% of all calls.
Oct peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
23 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 0 | — | |
| 2022 | 3 | — | |
| 2023* | 0 | — | |
| 2024 | 5 | — | |
| 2025 | 15 | +200.0% |
* Well below Friendship'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 6 building fires Friendship departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Friendship sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 670 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 | 30.2 mi | |
| 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 57 | 25.9 mi | |
| 2015 | Debris and open burning | 48 | 26.7 mi | |
| 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 | 48.8 mi | |
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 39 | 47.5 mi | |
| 2016 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 35 | 36.6 mi | |
| 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 | 43.7 mi | |
| 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 32 | 42.7 mi | |
| 2003 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 31 | 46.2 mi | |
| 1992 | Debris and open burning | 29 | 40.1 mi | |
| 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 | 47.9 mi | |
| 2001 | Debris and open burning | 20 | 48.1 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 | 04547 | 23 |
Six Maine cities with population within ±25% of Friendship. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Friendship.
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.