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Safety in Fort Plain · Not graded

Crime reported in Fort Plain, NY

Fort Plain’s police reported to the FBI for 2024 and 2025 but not 2023, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025.

Violent crimes
1
reported to the FBI, 2025
Property crimes
12
reported to the FBI, 2025
Nearest graded town
5 mi
St. Johnsville (B)
1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, about 6 property crimes reported

And about 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

Property crime (6)Violent crime (0.5)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Fort Plain0.5
Rest of NY4.9
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Fort Plain6.0
Rest of NY19.7
U.S. (FBI)15.5

Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.

By year

The years Fort Plain’s police reported

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents, against the rest of New York. A year the department didn’t report in full is a gap, not a zero.

Show as a table
YearFort PlainRest of New YorkFort PlainRest of New York
202225.619.92.55.6
2023not reported22.2not reported5.1
20242.521.30.05.0
20256.019.70.54.9

Crimes per 1,000 residents

What gets reported

13 crimes reported in 2025

1 violent and 12 property, as reported to the FBI by Fort Plain’s police.

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft10
Burglary2
Vehicle theft0
Aggravated assault1
Robbery0
Rape0
Homicide0
1
violent crimes
12
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

Nearest with figures

The nearest New York towns with a Safety Grade

Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
St. JohnsvilleB5 mi1.410.6
JohnstownC+14 mi1.715.2
Little FallsA−14 mi1.05.2
GloversvilleC+16 mi2.811.8
HerkimerD−20 mi12.471.3
IlionC22 mi2.716.9

Straight-line distance from the center of Fort Plain. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Fort Plain.

On the roads

No one died in a crash on Fort Plain’s roads in 2019–2023

That is about what is typical for New York towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (6.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Fort Plain’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Fort Plain’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.

0
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
0.0
per 100,000 a year · New York towns of 2,500–5,000: 6.1

Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.

Next door

Fort Plain and its neighbors

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
Palatine———
Minden———

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Palatine and Minden have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
  • One number for all of Fort Plain. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
  • Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Fort Plain’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (1,999 in 2025); our figure for Fort Plain is 2,005 (2025 Census estimate).
  • Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.

How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →

Questions about safety in Fort Plain

Is Fort Plain, NY safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Fort Plain. Fort Plain’s police reported to the FBI for 2024 and 2025 but not 2023, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025. The nearest New York towns with a grade are St. Johnsville (B, 5 mi), Johnstown (C+, 14 mi), Little Falls (A−, 14 mi).

Who polices Fort Plain?

Fort Plain’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Fort Plain Village”. Its figures are the ones on this page.

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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.