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Hillsdale-Copake Fire District

Fire district · Columbia County · Mid-Hudson · OSC municipal code 101139404500

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

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Compared with Mid-Hudson fire districts

IndicatorHillsdale-Copake Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending36.6%7.2%94th170AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%41st170AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years-4.4%23.1%26th161AFR 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$92k$185k$277k$370k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $265kRevenue 2020: $264kRevenue 2021: $292kRevenue 2022: $307kRevenue 2023: $370kRevenue 2024: $332kRevenue 2025: $331kSpending 2019: $204kSpending 2020: $215kSpending 2021: $238kSpending 2022: $145kSpending 2023: $239kSpending 2024: $246kSpending 2025: $228k

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)
$-168k$-92k$-16k$59k$135k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $5kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $18kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $54kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $135kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $-168kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $76kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $-9k

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$92k$184k$276k$368k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $88kDebt outstanding 2020: $44kDebt outstanding 2021: $0kDebt outstanding 2022: $368kDebt outstanding 2023: $300kDebt outstanding 2024: $230kDebt outstanding 2025: $156kDebt service 2019: $47kDebt service 2020: $46kDebt service 2021: $45kDebt service 2022: $0kDebt service 2023: $83kDebt service 2024: $83kDebt service 2025: $83k

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)$264,763$204,147$264,763$260,042$257,600$0$0$46,614$87,977afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$263,787$214,730$263,787$245,994$262,592$0$0$45,739$43,989afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$291,747$238,074$291,747$238,074$266,688$0$0$44,863$0afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$307,190$145,481$307,190$172,337$273,888$0$0$0$367,573afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$369,959$239,192$380,481$548,112$279,310$0$0$83,264$300,115afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$331,763$245,655$322,032$245,655$285,412$0$0$83,264$229,756afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$331,198$227,525$321,867$330,988$290,594$0$0$83,263$156,372afr-2025 ⓘ · debt-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$252,600$258,600$260,332$1,7322.4%No
2020$257,600$262,592$266,377$3,7851.9%No
2021$262,592$266,688$266,715$271.6%No
2022$266,688$273,888$274,932$1,0442.7%No
2023$273,888$279,311$283,315$4,0042%No
2024$279,311$284,897$293,431$8,5342%No
2025$284,897$290,594$298,774$8,1802%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.

OSC audits (1)

Source: osc-audits ⓘ. Matched by entity name in the report title.

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/columbia-county/fd-hillsdale-copake-fire-district.json