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Budgets, levies, debt, fund balance and fiscal-stress data for local governments and school districts, straight from state filings.

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Knox Fire District

Fire district · Albany County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 011144305000

Fire districts have no Census population; per-capita figures are not calculated.

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Compared with Capital Region fire districts

IndicatorKnox Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending0%13.1%16th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%48th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years-29.3%17.4%8th98AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)

Percentile = share of same-class peers in the region with a lower value. A high or low percentile is context, not a judgment. Sales tax for towns and villages is county distribution revenue.

Five-year picture

Operating funds: revenue vs. spending RevenueSpending
$0k$88k$175k$263k$350k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $350kRevenue 2020: $303kRevenue 2021: $319kRevenue 2022: $311kRevenue 2023: $317kRevenue 2024: $320kRevenue 2025: $320kSpending 2019: $270kSpending 2020: $241kSpending 2021: $262kSpending 2022: $214kSpending 2023: $209kSpending 2024: $296kSpending 2025: $185k

Our calculation from OSC AFR account data: all funds except custodial (T*), capital projects (H), fixed-asset (K) and long-term debt (W) groups, excluding interfund transfers and debt proceeds.

General fund surplus / deficit General fund result (incl. transfers)
$-79k$-25k$30k$84k$138k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $50kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $31kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $57kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $-57kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $-9kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $138kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $-79k

OSC AFR, fund A, revenues and other sources minus expenditures and other uses (our calculation). Planned use of fund balance appears as a deficit.

Debt Debt outstandingDebt service
$0k$39k$78k$117k$156k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $156kDebt outstanding 2020: $79kDebt outstanding 2021: $0kDebt service 2019: $81kDebt service 2020: $81kDebt service 2021: $81kDebt service 2022: $0kDebt service 2023: $0kDebt service 2024: $0kDebt service 2025: $0k

Year-end debt outstanding (OSC AFR debt detail) and debt service expenditures (OSC AFR).

Annual Financial Report series

YearOperating revenueOperating spendingGF revenue (incl. transfers)GF spending (incl. transfers)Property taxSales taxState aidDebt serviceDebt outstandingSource
2019 (FYE 2019-12-31)$350,083$270,437$379,841$329,723$288,000$0$48,950$81,480$155,848afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$303,076$240,756$303,018$271,756$293,200$0$1,500$81,480$79,086afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$319,211$261,893$319,195$261,893$297,750$0$0$81,480$0afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$310,963$213,995$310,680$367,812$303,705$0$0$0–afr-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$317,475$208,938$315,952$325,284$309,779$0$0$0–afr-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$320,353$295,617$434,091$295,617$308,779$0$0$0–afr-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$320,481$185,152$318,572$397,760$314,954$0$0$0–afr-2025 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30

Operating and property-tax figures are our sums of OSC account-level data (independent calculation, not OSC's own totals); GF = general fund (A).

Tax cap filings (OSC)

Fiscal yearPrior levyProposed levyLevy limitLimit minus proposedLevy growthOverride planned
2019$282,515$288,000$290,253$2,2531.9%No
2020$288,000$293,200$297,834$4,6341.8%No
2021$293,200$297,750$298,816$1,0661.6%No
2022$297,750$303,705$303,978$2732%No
2023$293,200$297,750$299,064$1,3141.6%No
2024$297,750$308,598$308,906$3083.6%No
2025$308,778$314,954$316,121$1,1672%No
2026$314,954$321,250$324,444$3,1942%No

Source: taxcap ⓘ, snapshot 10/09/2026. Highlighted rows: proposed levy above the computed limit. Filings are as submitted to OSC before budget adoption; a later fiscal year that has not been filed yet does not appear.

No OSC audits matched by name for this entity (osc-audits ⓘ).

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/albany-county/fd-knox-fire-district.json