Safety · Fort Fairfield
Fort Fairfield, ME crime & safety
Fort Fairfield's reported crime rate is below Maine's. Most reported incidents are property crimes, mainly thefts. Violent crime is rare: 3 reported in 2025.
Crime reported to police, trends and how Fort Fairfield compares with the towns next door, from FBI data.
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B+
Fort Fairfield’s Safety Grade: B+
Fort Fairfield reports less crime per resident than 71% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade. Maine has less reported crime than most states, so among its own towns Fort Fairfield sits closer to the middle.
B-Violent crimeA-Property crime▼Improving since 2023
All U.S. towns we grade (6,620)Safer than 71%
More reported crimeLess reported crime
Maine towns we grade (92)Safer than 42%
Places of 1,000–5,000 people (2,167)Safer than 60%
Lower confidence. Built on 67 incidents over 3 years. With counts this size, ordinary swings could put Fort Fairfield anywhere from B to A-.
How the Safety Grade works
- One score, from FBI data. Property crimes + 4 × violent crimes reported to police, per resident, pooled over the FBI’s latest 3 years (2023–2025). Violent crime counts four times as much because it matters more to how safe a place feels. It’s the same score behind our Safest towns in ME ranking.
- Graded on a national curve. Every U.S. town and city with 1,000+ residents that reported all 3 years (6,620 places) is lined up by score: A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Violent and property sub-grades use the same curve on each rate alone.
- Trend compares 2025 with 2023 and only says “improving” or “rising” when the change is bigger than normal year-to-year swings.
- Not graded: towns under 1,000 people, and towns missing any of the 3 years.
- What it can’t see: unreported crime, traffic safety, or which part of town incidents happen in. Towns with a campus, highway or big shopping center count incidents involving visitors. It’s our own summary of public data, not an official rating.
Reported crime, 2025
Fort Fairfield at a glance
Violent crime
0.9
per 1,000 residents · Maine 1
Property crime
4.6
per 1,000 residents · Maine 9.6
Incidents reported
18
3 violent · 15 property
Since 2022
▼ 47%
change in reported property crime
Violent crime per 1,000
Property crime per 1,000
Trend
Reported crime per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025
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Solid lines: property crime · dashed: violent crime.
Show as a table
| Year | Fort Fairfield property | Maine property | Fort Fairfield violent | Maine violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 8.6 | 12.3 | 0.9 | 1.1 |
| 2023 | 6.6 | 11.4 | 2.7 | 1 |
| 2024 | 3.9 | 11.6 | 1.5 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4.6 | 9.6 | 0.9 | 1 |
What gets reported
2025, by type
Larceny / theft
8
Burglary
5
Vehicle theft
2
Aggravated assault
3
Robbery
0
Rape
0
Homicide
0
Arson
0
Offenses reported to police, not convictions.
Who keeps Fort Fairfield safe
Local public safety
👮 Fort Fairfield Police DepartmentReports its crime counts to the FBI — the figures on this page.
🚨 EmergenciesCall 911. For non-emergency numbers, alerts and preparedness, see the town guide.
Nearby
Fort Fairfield and its neighbors
Reported crime per 1,000 residents in each town's latest year. * = a count, for towns under 1,000 people. Grade: the Safety Grade; — = not graded.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Fairfield | B+ | 0.9 | 4.6 | 2025 |
| Presque Isle | C | 2.3 | 15.7 | 2025 |
| Limestone | — | 0 | 3.9 | 2022 |
| Caribou | — | 0.8 | 8.6 | 2025 |
No town figures in the FBI's data: Easton.
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 thefts and some assaults are never reported.
- Small numbers swing. In a town of about 3,300, a handful of incidents moves the rate noticeably from year to year. The trend matters more than any one year.
- Visitors count too. Towns with a campus, highway, beach or shopping center see incidents involving people who don't live there, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn't report a full year, not that nothing happened.
Source: 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. This isn't an official statement of public safety — in an emergency, call 911.