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Burnt Hills Fire District

Fire district · Saratoga County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 411104902000

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

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Recurring deficits our calculation

General fund spending (incl. transfers out) exceeded revenues (incl. transfers in) in 2023, 2025, and operating funds overall spent more than they took in in 2023, 2025 (last 3 AFR years). Planned use of fund balance can cause this; check the adopted budgets.

Source: afr-2023 ⓘ · afr-2025 ⓘ

Levy above tax cap

OSC tax cap filings: proposed levy exceeded the computed levy limit for FY 2024 (by $30,025, override planned), 2025 (by $10,834, override planned), 2027 (by $19,599, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region fire districts

IndicatorBurnt Hills Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending17.1%13.1%62nd103AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%48th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years107.9%17.4%90th98AFR 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$327k$654k$981k$1.3M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $555kRevenue 2020: $582kRevenue 2021: $611kRevenue 2022: $657kRevenue 2023: $815kRevenue 2024: $959kRevenue 2025: $945kSpending 2019: $612kSpending 2020: $394kSpending 2021: $508kSpending 2022: $484kSpending 2023: $1.3MSpending 2024: $679kSpending 2025: $1.1M

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)
$-492k$-268k$-44k$180k$404k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $-57kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $188kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $404kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $183kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $-492kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $280kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $-112k

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$801k$1.6M$2.4M$3.2M2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $3.2MDebt outstanding 2020: $3.1MDebt outstanding 2021: $3.1MDebt outstanding 2022: $3.0MDebt outstanding 2023: $2.9MDebt outstanding 2024: $2.9MDebt outstanding 2025: $2.8MDebt service 2019: $187kDebt service 2020: $190kDebt service 2021: $180kDebt service 2022: $178kDebt service 2023: $180kDebt service 2024: $178kDebt service 2025: $180k

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)$554,900$612,360$554,900$612,360$545,105$0$4,500$186,736$3,202,470afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$582,185$394,215$582,185$394,215$556,007$0$0$189,803$3,130,000afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$611,127$508,250$912,111$508,250$557,911$0$0$179,809$3,065,000afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$656,867$483,848$666,359$483,848$615,861$0$0$177,575$3,000,000afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$815,367$1,307,552$815,367$1,307,552$707,113$0$1,500$180,213$2,930,000afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$959,115$679,412$959,115$679,412$776,813$0$121,309$177,763$2,860,000afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$944,507$1,056,626$944,507$1,056,626$814,275$0$0$180,225$2,785,000afr-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$380,190$545,104$397,351$-147,75343.4%Yes
2020$545,104$556,006$565,125$9,1192%No
2021$556,006$557,911$578,013$20,1020.3%No
2022$557,911$615,861$588,096$-27,76510.4%Yes
2023$615,861$707,112$635,339$-71,77314.8%Yes
2024$707,112$776,812$746,787$-30,0259.9%Yes
2025$776,812$814,275$803,441$-10,8344.8%Yes
2026$814,275$827,200$837,620$10,4201.6%No
2027$827,200$885,322$865,723$-19,5997%Yes

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/saratoga-county/fd-burnt-hills-fire-district.json