Visitation · National Seashore

Fire Island National Seashore visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Fire Island, when the average temperature nearby is 75 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 32 degrees. An average July draws 70,649 visits where an average January draws 3,786. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 21.9 percent, from 391,311 in 2019 to 305,520 in 2025.

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Visits by month, with temperature and precipitation

Bars are the average recreation visits in each month over 2021 to 2025. The line is the average temperature at Molloy Cercom, 5 miles from the park's reference point at 5 feet, station USC00302151 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain from the same station, which publishes no snowfall normal.

Annual visits, 1979 to 2025

Recreation visits per calendar year. A year with a missing month is left blank rather than estimated.

The last ten years

Year	Recreation visits	Change on prior year
2025	305,520	+0.6%
2024	303,731	+1.6%
2023	298,958	-24.1%
2022	393,749	+75.1%
2021	224,924	-10.2%
2020	250,449	-36.0%
2019	391,311	+28.0%
2018	305,710	-33.0%
2017	456,392	+5.8%
2016	431,303	-2.4%

Visitation at other parks

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Source: NPS Visitor Use Statistics, monthly recreation visits, as compiled for Publicopia Labs. A year is shown only when all twelve months were reported. Temperature, precipitation and snowfall normals are the 1991 to 2020 monthly averages published by NOAA NCEI for station USC00302151, 5 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.