In 2025, fire departments serving Lower Alloways Creek responded to 10 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Forest, woods or wildland fire lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 90% of all calls.
Feb peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
33 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 0 | — | |
| 2022 | 7 | — | |
| 2023 | 9 | +28.6% | |
| 2024 | 7 | -22.2% | |
| 2025 | 10 | +42.9% |
* Well below Lower Alloways Creek'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 Lower Alloways Creek departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Lower Alloways Creek sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 27,973 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,577 | 45.4 mi | |
| 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,450 | 43.2 mi | |
| 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,107 | 32.1 mi | |
| 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,000 | 18.9 mi | |
| 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,950 | 40.6 mi | |
| 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,900 | 42.1 mi | |
| 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,600 | 47.0 mi | |
| 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,535 | 20.8 mi | |
| 2020 | Natural | 1,518 | 22.1 mi | |
| 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,250 | 39.7 mi | |
| 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 910 | 39.8 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 765 | 22.0 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 New Jersey cities with population within ±25% of Lower Alloways Creek. 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.