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High Falls Fire District

Fire district · Ulster County · Mid-Hudson · OSC municipal code 511150904000

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

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Compared with Mid-Hudson fire districts

IndicatorHigh Falls Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending4.6%7.2%46th170AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%41st170AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years47.4%23.1%69th161AFR 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$136k$272k$408k$545k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $322kRevenue 2020: $317kRevenue 2021: $349kRevenue 2022: $360kRevenue 2023: $392kRevenue 2024: $399kRevenue 2025: $411kSpending 2019: $385kSpending 2020: $205kSpending 2021: $187kSpending 2022: $154kSpending 2023: $300kSpending 2024: $545kSpending 2025: $276k

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)
$-3k$39k$82k$124k$166k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $-3kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $46kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $84kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $166kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $105kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $28kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $109k

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$24k$48k$72k$96k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $96kDebt outstanding 2020: $87kDebt outstanding 2021: $77kDebt outstanding 2022: $68kDebt outstanding 2023: $57kDebt outstanding 2024: $47kDebt outstanding 2025: $36kDebt service 2019: $13kDebt service 2020: $13kDebt service 2021: $13kDebt service 2022: $13kDebt service 2023: $13kDebt service 2024: $13kDebt service 2025: $13k

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)$322,089$385,127$320,541$323,623$297,420$0$0$12,829$95,898afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$317,253$204,717$316,559$270,894$307,251$0$0$12,830$86,793afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$349,356$187,439$349,184$264,900$336,792$0$0$12,829$77,335afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$359,875$154,166$359,111$192,612$345,624$0$0$12,830$67,509afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$392,151$299,628$385,822$280,745$355,040$0$0$12,829$57,302afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$398,656$544,628$450,666$422,937$364,926$0$0$12,830$46,698afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$410,614$276,312$413,623$304,312$379,913$0$0$12,830$35,681afr-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$282,368$297,445$294,793$-2,6525.3%Yes
2020$297,445$307,276$307,277$13.3%No
2021$307,276$336,817$314,099$-22,7189.6%Yes
2022$336,817$345,649$345,649$02.6%No
2023$345,649$355,065$355,065$02.7%No
2024$355,065$365,426$365,426$02.9%No
2025$365,426$380,413$380,413$04.1%No
2026$380,413$392,406$392,406$03.2%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/ulster-county/fd-high-falls-fire-district.json