In 2025, fire departments serving Holtsville responded to 17 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Fire, other lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 76% of all calls.
Aug peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
106 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2023.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 17 | — | |
| 2022* | 9 | — | |
| 2023 | 51 | — | |
| 2024* | 12 | — | |
| 2025 | 17 | — |
* Well below Holtsville'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 3 building fires Holtsville departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Holtsville sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 9,579 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 5,050 | 19.8 mi | |
| 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1,000 | 5.1 mi | |
| 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 992 | 11.8 mi | |
| 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 363 | 49.6 mi | |
| 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 250 | 5.1 mi | |
| 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 175 | 46.5 mi | |
| 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 152 | 19.8 mi | |
| 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 125 | 9.1 mi | |
| 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 125 | 46.5 mi | |
| 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 | 42.8 mi | |
| 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 100 | 5.1 mi | |
| 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 100 | 5.1 mi |
Top 6 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six New York cities with population within ±25% of Holtsville. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Holtsville.
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.