In 2025, fire departments serving Sloan responded to 11 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Cooking fire, confined to container lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 100% of all calls.
Jun peaks. Mar dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
65 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2021.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 19 | — | |
| 2022 | 9 | -52.6% | |
| 2023 | 13 | +44.4% | |
| 2024 | 13 | +0.0% | |
| 2025 | 11 | -15.4% |
For the 0 building fires Sloan departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Sloan sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 15 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 304 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Debris and open burning | 72 | 46.3 mi | |
| 1994 | Debris and open burning | 44 | 49.4 mi | |
| 1995 | Smoking | 25 | 34.3 mi | |
| 1995 | Smoking | 20 | 40.5 mi | |
| 2012 | Debris and open burning | 19 | 35.5 mi | |
| 2016 | Debris and open burning | 16 | 11.5 mi | |
| 1997 | Smoking | 15 | 43.9 mi | |
| 1995 | Smoking | 15 | 46.5 mi | |
| 2006 | Other causes | 14 | 47.6 mi | |
| 2012 | Debris and open burning | 13 | 49.5 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 | 21.6 mi | |
| 2010 | Debris and open burning | 10 | 43.1 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 York cities with population within ±25% of Sloan. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Sloan.
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.