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Sparrowbush Fire District

Fire district · Orange County · Mid-Hudson · OSC municipal code 331122408500

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

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Compared with Mid-Hudson fire districts

IndicatorSparrowbush Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending7.8%7.2%51st170AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%41st170AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years99.1%23.1%84th161AFR 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$152k$305k$457k$610k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $371kRevenue 2020: $407kRevenue 2021: $396kRevenue 2022: $451kRevenue 2023: $494kRevenue 2024: $499kRevenue 2025: $508kSpending 2019: $610kSpending 2020: $335kSpending 2021: $299kSpending 2022: $609kSpending 2023: $423kSpending 2024: $352kSpending 2025: $596k

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)
$-88k$-50k$-12k$26k$64k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $21kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $-25kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $-40kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $6kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $54kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $64kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $-88k

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$147k$294k$441k$588k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $315kDebt outstanding 2020: $253kDebt outstanding 2021: $588kDebt outstanding 2022: $486kDebt outstanding 2023: $380kDebt outstanding 2024: $291kDebt outstanding 2025: $253kDebt service 2019: $75kDebt service 2020: $75kDebt service 2021: $75kDebt service 2022: $121kDebt service 2023: $121kDebt service 2024: $100kDebt service 2025: $47k

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)$371,413$609,789$371,413$350,352$364,867$0$0$74,649$314,505afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$407,348$334,546$407,348$432,395$370,267$0$1,500$74,649$252,904afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$395,550$299,121$395,550$435,278$380,613$0$0$74,650$588,234afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$450,633$609,250$450,635$444,674$438,334$0$0$121,221$485,724afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$494,464$423,069$489,598$435,457$453,727$0$1,500$121,222$379,755afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$498,971$352,292$493,960$430,292$472,609$0$0$99,707$291,393afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$507,516$595,629$507,516$595,629$492,742$0$0$46,573$253,234afr-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$340,559$364,867$347,752$-17,1157.1%Yes
2020$364,867$373,467$373,467$02.4%No
2021$370,267$381,913$381,913$03.2%No
2022$381,913$439,434$392,862$-46,57215.1%Yes
2023$438,334$452,881$452,645$-2363.3%Yes
2024$453,781$472,609$473,549$9404.2%No
2025$472,609$492,742$495,342$2,6004.3%No
2026$492,742$509,382$511,982$2,6003.4%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/orange-county/fd-sparrowbush-fire-district.json