In 2025, fire departments serving Groton responded to 16 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 94% of all calls.
Feb peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
61 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2021.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 16 | — | |
| 2022 | 13 | -18.8% | |
| 2023* | 7 | — | |
| 2024 | 9 | — | |
| 2025 | 16 | +77.8% |
* Well below Groton'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 7 building fires Groton departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Groton sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 23 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 759 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 137 | 36.0 mi | |
| 2012 | Debris and open burning | 120 | 20.0 mi | |
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 72 | 27.2 mi | |
| 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 54 | 36.6 mi | |
| 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | 50 | 45.2 mi | |
| 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 47 | 21.8 mi | |
| 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 | 44.6 mi | |
| 2012 | Debris and open burning | 35 | 37.5 mi | |
| 2012 | Debris and open burning | 27 | 47.4 mi | |
| 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 | 16.2 mi | |
| 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 15 | 45.6 mi | |
| 2013 | Debris and open burning | 15 | 47.2 mi |
Top 3 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six Vermont cities with population within ±25% of Groton. 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.