In 2025, fire departments serving Stafford responded to 12 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 58% of all calls.
Nov peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
49 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2023.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 12 | — | |
| 2022 | 7 | -41.7% | |
| 2023 | 14 | +100.0% | |
| 2024* | 4 | — | |
| 2025 | 12 | — |
* Well below Stafford'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 2 building fires Stafford departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Stafford sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 793 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Smoking | 145 | 29.1 mi | |
| 2006 | Debris and open burning | 88 | 21.0 mi | |
| 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 48 | 36.7 mi | |
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 44 | 39.4 mi | |
| 2020 | Debris and open burning | 42 | 24.8 mi | |
| 2010 | Debris and open burning | 40 | 25.4 mi | |
| 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 | 41.3 mi | |
| 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | 33 | 36.3 mi | |
| 1993 | Debris and open burning | 31 | 41.9 mi | |
| 2009 | Smoking | 30 | 48.2 mi | |
| 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 | 50.0 mi | |
| 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 | 44.5 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 | 14143 | 49 |
Six New York cities with population within ±25% of Stafford. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Stafford.
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.