In 2025, fire departments serving Pawling responded to 19 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 95% of all calls.
Jun peaks. Jul dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
105 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2023.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 1 | — | |
| 2022 | 20 | — | |
| 2023 | 34 | +70.0% | |
| 2024 | 31 | -8.8% | |
| 2025 | 19 | -38.7% |
* Well below Pawling'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 1 building fires Pawling departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Pawling sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 18,170 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Smoking | 2,855 | 37.2 mi | |
| 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2,759 | 43.5 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,028 | 39.7 mi | |
| 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,300 | 30.1 mi | |
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 998 | 37.2 mi | |
| 2001 | Smoking | 866 | 39.2 mi | |
| 1999 | Smoking | 700 | 25.6 mi | |
| 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 641 | 37.7 mi | |
| 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 552 | 36.6 mi | |
| 2001 | Smoking | 550 | 8.2 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 485 | 38.1 mi | |
| 2012 | Smoking | 481 | 29.5 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 | 12564 | 105 |
Six New York cities with population within ±25% of Pawling. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Pawling.
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.