In 2025, fire departments serving Hamilton responded to 17 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 83% of all calls.
Apr peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
67 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2023. $250 cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 1 | — | |
| 2022 | 15 | — | |
| 2023 | 18 | +20.0% | |
| 2024 | 16 | -11.1% | |
| 2025 | 17 | +6.2% |
* Well below Hamilton'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 Hamilton departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Hamilton sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 944 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 | 30.8 mi | |
| 2007 | Natural | 65 | 30.4 mi | |
| 2015 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 53 | 48.7 mi | |
| 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 49 | 39.1 mi | |
| 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | 47 | 45.5 mi | |
| 1995 | Debris and open burning | 45 | 31.2 mi | |
| 1997 | Debris and open burning | 40 | 49.1 mi | |
| 1999 | Debris and open burning | 40 | 35.4 mi | |
| 1999 | Natural | 40 | 40.8 mi | |
| 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 38 | 40.6 mi | |
| 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 | 45.4 mi | |
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 | 45.5 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 | 13346 | 67 |
Six New York cities with population within ±25% of Hamilton. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Hamilton.
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.