In 2025, fire departments serving Gardiner responded to 22 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $350K building blaze. 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.
Jan peaks. Feb dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
70 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025. $739K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 9 | — | |
| 2022* | 7 | — | |
| 2023 | 15 | — | |
| 2024 | 17 | +13.3% | |
| 2025 | 22 | +29.4% |
* Well below Gardiner'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 2 building fires Gardiner departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 18 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 | Outside area, other | 7 | 38.9% | |
| 2 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 5 | 27.8% | |
| 3 | Cooking area, kitchen | 1 | 5.6% | |
| 4 | Laundry area, wash house (laundry) | 1 | 5.6% | |
| 5 | Structural area, other | 1 | 5.6% | |
| 6 | Ceiling & floor assembly, crawl space b/t stories | 1 | 5.6% | |
| 7 | Cargo/trunk area - all vehicles | 1 | 5.6% | |
| 8 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 1 | 5.6% |
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 Gardiner mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 5 | 27.8% | |
| 2 | Match | 3 | 16.7% | |
| 3 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 2 | 11.1% | |
| 4 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 2 | 11.1% | |
| 5 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 2 | 11.1% | |
| 6 | Backfire from internal combustion engine | 2 | 11.1% | |
| 7 | Arcing | 1 | 5.6% | |
| 8 | Conducted heat from another fire | 1 | 5.6% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Gardiner departments in 2025. These 3 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $350,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 2 | $30,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $20,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Gardiner sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 17,559 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Smoking | 2,855 | 8.7 mi | |
| 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2,759 | 14.0 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,028 | 8.6 mi | |
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 998 | 8.7 mi | |
| 2001 | Smoking | 866 | 9.5 mi | |
| 1999 | Smoking | 700 | 24.9 mi | |
| 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 641 | 36.4 mi | |
| 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 552 | 32.3 mi | |
| 2001 | Smoking | 550 | 31.6 mi | |
| 1994 | Smoking | 500 | 46.3 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 485 | 32.1 mi | |
| 2012 | Smoking | 481 | 30.2 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 | 12525 | 70 |
Six New York cities with population within ±25% of Gardiner. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Gardiner.
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.