In 2025, fire departments serving National Park responded to 30 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 83% of all calls.
Apr peaks. Aug dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
77 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 0 | — | |
| 2022 | 14 | — | |
| 2023* | 5 | — | |
| 2024 | 28 | — | |
| 2025 | 30 | +7.1% |
* Well below National Park'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 9 building fires National Park departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. National Park sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 107,813 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 19,225 | 46.6 mi | |
| 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 17,050 | 47.8 mi | |
| 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 11,765 | 42.3 mi | |
| 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11,638 | 39.6 mi | |
| 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5,284 | 47.0 mi | |
| 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 4,832 | 49.5 mi | |
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,577 | 31.7 mi | |
| 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,900 | 32.4 mi | |
| 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,730 | 46.8 mi | |
| 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,600 | 38.1 mi | |
| 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,450 | 27.6 mi | |
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,300 | 38.0 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 National Park. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in National Park.
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.