In 2025, fire departments serving West Islip responded to 17 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Incomplete 2025 data. West Islip's departments reported 17 incidents to NFIRS for 2025, against about 33 in a typical year, so 2025 figures on this page undercount. The 2021–2025 totals are the better guide.
Electrical wiring/equipment problem, other lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 77% of all calls.
Nov peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
167 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2021.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 50 | — | |
| 2022 | 41 | -18.0% | |
| 2023 | 49 | +19.5% | |
| 2024* | 10 | — | |
| 2025* | 17 | — |
* Well below West Islip'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 0 building fires West Islip departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. West Islip sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 9,808 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 5,050 | 34.9 mi | |
| 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1,000 | 20.1 mi | |
| 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 992 | 26.9 mi | |
| 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 363 | 41.4 mi | |
| 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 250 | 20.1 mi | |
| 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 | 40.6 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 190 | 40.9 mi | |
| 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 152 | 34.9 mi | |
| 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 145 | 45.1 mi | |
| 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 125 | 6.1 mi | |
| 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 | 45.2 mi | |
| 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 | 45.2 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 New York cities with population within ±25% of West Islip. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in West Islip.
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.