In 2025, fire departments serving Sebec responded to 10 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 100% of all calls.
Oct peaks. Feb dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
34 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 2 | — | |
| 2022 | 6 | — | |
| 2023 | 5 | -16.7% | |
| 2024 | 11 | +120.0% | |
| 2025 | 10 | -9.1% |
* Well below Sebec'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 8 building fires Sebec departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Sebec sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 1,145 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | 198 | 48.2 mi | |
| 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 75 | 35.3 mi | |
| 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 67 | 27.1 mi | |
| 2016 | Debris and open burning | 61 | 3.9 mi | |
| 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 60 | 44.4 mi | |
| 1992 | Debris and open burning | 50 | 45.2 mi | |
| 2015 | Other causes | 50 | 33.4 mi | |
| 2020 | Other causes | 45 | 41.8 mi | |
| 1992 | Debris and open burning | 42 | 44.4 mi | |
| 2018 | Natural | 41 | 49.3 mi | |
| 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 | 39.2 mi | |
| 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 | 28.9 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 Maine cities with population within ±25% of Sebec. 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.