In 2025, fire departments serving New York Mills responded to 13 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 85% of all calls.
Apr peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
89 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2021. $68K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 32 | — | |
| 2022 | 16 | -50.0% | |
| 2023 | 24 | +50.0% | |
| 2024* | 4 | — | |
| 2025 | 13 | — |
* Well below New York Mills'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 New York Mills departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 17 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 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 3 | 17.6% | |
| 2 | Laundry area, wash house (laundry) | 2 | 11.8% | |
| 3 | Outside area, other | 2 | 11.8% | |
| 4 | Function area, other | 1 | 5.9% | |
| 5 | Cooking area, kitchen | 1 | 5.9% | |
| 6 | Bathroom, checkroom, lavatory, locker room | 1 | 5.9% | |
| 7 | Structural area, other | 1 | 5.9% | |
| 8 | Ceiling & floor assembly, crawl space b/t stories | 1 | 5.9% | |
| 9 | Vehicle area, other | 1 | 5.9% | |
| 10 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 1 | 5.9% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 3 | 17.6% |
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 New York Mills mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 8 | 47.1% | |
| 2 | Arcing | 5 | 29.4% | |
| 3 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 2 | 11.8% | |
| 4 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 1 | 5.9% | |
| 5 | Cigarette | 1 | 5.9% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. New York Mills sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 719 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 | 33.8 mi | |
| 2007 | Natural | 65 | 15.6 mi | |
| 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | 47 | 30.8 mi | |
| 1995 | Debris and open burning | 45 | 41.5 mi | |
| 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 39 | 31.5 mi | |
| 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 | 41.6 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 35 | 35.0 mi | |
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 | 39.6 mi | |
| 2008 | Smoking | 30 | 35.1 mi | |
| 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 29 | 39.8 mi | |
| 1998 | Debris and open burning | 25 | 20.4 mi | |
| 2013 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 24 | 42.6 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 | 13417 | 89 |
Six New York cities with population within ±25% of New York Mills. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in New York Mills.
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.