In 2025, fire departments serving Lyndonville responded to 11 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 82% of all calls.
Apr peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
41 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 3 | — | |
| 2022 | 11 | — | |
| 2023 | 7 | -36.4% | |
| 2024 | 9 | +28.6% | |
| 2025 | 11 | +22.2% |
* Well below Lyndonville'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 4 building fires Lyndonville departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 2 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 | Cooking area, kitchen | 1 | 50.0% | |
| 2 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 1 | 50.0% |
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 Lyndonville mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 1 | 50.0% | |
| 2 | Molten, hot material | 1 | 50.0% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Lyndonville sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 14 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 466 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Debris and open burning | 120 | 43.5 mi | |
| 2006 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 100 | 37.5 mi | |
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 72 | 35.8 mi | |
| 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 47 | 45.9 mi | |
| 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 | 21.5 mi | |
| 2013 | Debris and open burning | 15 | 40.2 mi | |
| 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 | 16.9 mi | |
| 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 13 | 37.4 mi | |
| 2003 | Smoking | 13 | 36.7 mi | |
| 2018 | Debris and open burning | 11 | 39.4 mi | |
| 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 | 45.9 mi | |
| 2016 | Debris and open burning | 10 | 21.2 mi |
Top 2 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 Lyndonville. 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.