Public Safety & Justice Data retrieved 2026-08-22

Fire incidents

Name: Fire-type incidents FDNY companies responded to
Creator: Fire Department of the City of New York, via NYC Open Data

Fires FDNY companies responded to each year since 2013: 38,131 at the 2015 high, 34,776 in 2024.

34,776

fire-type incidents FDNY companies responded to in 2024

Below the 38,131 high of 2015 and above the 33,144 low of 2021.

Source: Incidents Responded to by Fire Companies (fire-type incidents only, NFIRS codes 100-173, aggregated to monthly), Fire Department of the City of New York, via NYC Open Data. Retrieved 2026-08-22. Open data (NYC Open Data terms of use).

The numbers behind this chart

Year	Fire-type incidents FDNY companies responded to
2013	36,333
2014	36,818
2015	38,131
2016	36,091
2017	35,405
2018	34,430
2019	33,995
2020	34,612
2021	33,144
2022	34,331
2023	33,238
2024	34,776

The key years

2013 36,333 The first complete year in the dataset.

2015 38,131 The high point of the series.

2021 33,144 The low point of the series.

2024 34,776 The latest complete year.

What this counts

Fires FDNY companies responded to in a calendar year: NFIRS incident-type codes 100 through 173 (building fires, vehicle fires, brush and rubbish fires, and the rest of the fire-type codes), summed from the department's incident-level dataset. The same dataset also records the far larger volume of non-fire calls, EMS assists, alarms, and service calls among them, which this page excludes.

What it does not say

This counts what FDNY units respond to and classify as a fire-type incident. A fire residents extinguish themselves without calling 911, or one nobody reports, is not in this count.
It excludes the far larger number of non-fire calls fire companies also answer: EMS assists, alarm activations, and service calls together outnumber fires many times over in the same dataset.
FDNY posts this dataset with a reporting lag: the most recent months are not yet complete when this page is built, so the current year stays off the chart until twelve full months are in.

The questions New Yorkers actually ask

How many fires does FDNY respond to each year?

34,776 fire-type incidents in 2024, per the department's own incident data. The series ranges from a low of 33,144 in 2021 to a high of 38,131 in 2015.

Are fires becoming more common in NYC?

Not on this measure: FDNY responded to 36,333 fires in 2013 and 34,776 in 2024, with the series peaking at 38,131 in 2015.

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