In 2025, fire departments serving Williamstown responded to 70 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 94% of all calls.
Feb peaks. May dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
204 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 3 | — | |
| 2022 | 49 | — | |
| 2023 | 46 | -6.1% | |
| 2024 | 36 | -21.7% | |
| 2025 | 70 | +94.4% |
* Well below Williamstown'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 19 building fires Williamstown departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Williamstown sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 17 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 577 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 | 26.7 mi | |
| 2012 | Smoking | 75 | 28.8 mi | |
| 2007 | Natural | 65 | 23.7 mi | |
| 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 | 46.1 mi | |
| 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 39 | 30.0 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 35 | 34.2 mi | |
| 2008 | Smoking | 30 | 4.3 mi | |
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 | 21.9 mi | |
| 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 29 | 33.2 mi | |
| 2013 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 24 | 40.7 mi | |
| 2006 | Debris and open burning | 21 | 14.5 mi | |
| 2012 | Smoking | 13 | 15.2 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 | 13493 | 204 |
Six New York cities with population within ±25% of Williamstown. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
2 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Williamstown.
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.