National Fire Incident Reporting System

The National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) is a reporting standard that fire departments use to uniformly report on the full range of their activities, from fire to Emergency Medical Services (EMS) to severe weather and natural disasters.

Support and documentation

Reference guides, software and design documentation manuals, specification changes, National Fire Academy training courses, NFIRSGrams, and help with coding NFIRS incident reports.

Reporting guidelines

Instructions for state program managers and fire departments on how to report and release NFIRS data.

NFIRS applications, user login and registration

Login access, registration information and user tools for state program managers and fire departments.

Vendor information

New vendor registration, validation tools and software development procedures. Also included are the lists of active and registered vendors.

About NFIRS

The benefits of using NFIRS, how it works and the kinds of data collected.

Determining property use at the incident location

This NFIRSGram explains the importance of accurately classifying your incident location using the Mixed Use Property and Property Use fields.

Facts about NFIRS

• NFIRS is the world’s largest, national, annual database of fire incident information.
• The NFIRS database comprises about 75 percent of all reported fires that occur annually.
• Every U.S. state and the District of Columbia reports NFIRS data.
• The Department of Defense and the Native American Tribal Authority participate in NFIRS.
• Participation in NFIRS is voluntary.
• 24,480 fire departments reported in NFIRS in 2017.
• Participating fire departments reported about 27.9 million incidents, including 1.2 million fires in 2017.
• Thirty-eight fire departments with a protected population of over 500,000 participate in NFIRS.

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