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NFIRS</a></li><hr><li><a href="/nfirs/neris/"><abbr title="National Emergency Response Information System">NERIS</abbr></a></li></ul></div></div></nav></div><div class="col-12 col-lg-9"><div class="row justify-content-center mb-5"><div class="col-12 col-lg-10"><p class="lead">The National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) is a voluntary reporting standard that fire departments use to uniformly report on the full range of their activities, from fire to emergency medical services to severe weather and natural disasters.</p><h2 class="mt-4">Facts about NFIRS</h2><p class="small mt-0">Source: <a href="/nfirs/access-data/">2021 NFIRS Public Data Release</a></p><div class="row row-cols-1 row-cols-sm-2 row-cols-md-3 my-5 justify-content-between align-items-stretch text-center g-4"><div class="col-12 col-md-4 mb-4 px-4 d-flex flex-column justify-content-center align-items-center"><span class="fw-bold fs-6">The NFIRS is the world's largest, national, annual database of fire incident information.</span></div><div class="col-12 col-md-4 mb-4 px-4 d-flex flex-column justify-content-center align-items-center"><span class="display-4 fw-bolder opacity70">22,300</span> <span class="fw-bold fs-6">fire departments reported to NFIRS in 2021.</span></div><div class="col-12 col-md-4 mb-4 px-4 d-flex flex-column justify-content-center align-items-center"><span class="display-5 fw-bolder opacity70">Over 29 million</span> <span class="fw-bold fs-6">responses to all types of incidents were reported by participating fire departments, including nearly 1.1 million fire responses in 2021.</span></div><hr class="d-none d-md-block w-100"><div class="col-12 col-md-5 mb-4 px-4 d-flex flex-column justify-content-center align-items-center"><span class="fw-bold fs-6">The NFIRS is not a complete census of reported fires in the United States. It comprises about 70% of all fire incidents that occur annually.</span></div><div class="col-12 col-md-5 mb-4 px-4 d-flex flex-column flex-md-row justify-content-center align-items-center"><img src="/img/maps/usamap.5percent-blk.350x222.png" class="usa-map img-fluid me-md-3" alt="us map"> <span class="fw-bold fs-6">Every U.S. state, the District of Columbia, and departments in the Native American Tribal Authorities report NFIRS data.</span></div></div><h2 class="mt-4">Benefits of using NFIRS</h2><ul><li class="mb-3">Fire departments can use NFIRS to track and manage apparatus, personnel and casualty information, document the full range of department activity, and justify budgets with summary and statistical data.</li><li class="mb-3">Fire departments can use NFIRS data to focus on current community challenges, predict future issues, and measure program performance.</li><li>The modular design of NFIRS makes the system easy to use because it captures only the data required to describe an incident.</li></ul><div class="row align-items-center my-5"><div class="col-12 col-md-6 col-lg-5"><p class="lead fw-bold">By contributing to NFIRS, fire departments help the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) to:</p></div><div class="col-12 col-md-6 col-lg-7"><ul class="fa-ul"><li class="mb-3"><span class="fa-sharp fa-solid fa-square-check fa-li fa-xs text-success"></span>Analyze the severity and reach of the nation's fire problem.</li><li class="mb-3"><span class="fa-sharp fa-solid fa-square-check fa-li fa-xs text-success"></span>Use NFIRS information to develop national public education campaigns.</li><li class="mb-3"><span class="fa-sharp fa-solid fa-square-check fa-li fa-xs text-success"></span>Make recommendations for national codes and standards.</li><li class="mb-3"><span class="fa-sharp fa-solid fa-square-check fa-li fa-xs text-success"></span>Determine consumer product failures.</li><li class="mb-3"><span class="fa-sharp fa-solid fa-square-check fa-li fa-xs text-success"></span>Identify the focus for research efforts.</li><li class="mb-3"><span class="fa-sharp fa-solid fa-square-check fa-li fa-xs text-success"></span>Support federal legislation.</li></ul></div></div><h2 class="mt-4">How NFIRS works</h2><p>After responding to an incident, a fire department completes the appropriate NFIRS modules. Each module collects a common set of information that describes the nature of the call, the actions firefighters took in response to the call, and the end results, including firefighter and civilian casualties and a property loss estimate.</p><p>The fire department submits its all-incident data to the state, tribal or territorial agency responsible for NFIRS data. The agency gathers data from all its participating departments and reports the compiled data to the USFA. The fire department can also submit their data directly to the USFA’s NFIRS national database through import tools designed specifically for this process.</p><p>The NFIRS software is available at no cost to states, tribal, territorial agencies and fire departments.</p><h2 class="mt-5">How can my fire department begin reporting NFIRS data?</h2><p>Contact your <a href="/pocs/">state NFIRS program manager</a> or the <a href="https://apps.usfa.fema.gov/contact/ntsc/">NFIRS Help Desk</a> to learn more about NFIRS.</p></div></div></div></div></section></div><footer id="footer"><div class="bg-light" id="page-reviewed"><div class="container py-2"><p class="small mb-0">Page last reviewed: Dec. 13, 2022</p></div></div><div id="footer-bg" class="bg-gray-500 text-white d-print-none pt-5 shadow"><div class="container"><div class="row justify-content-center justify-content-lg-end align-items-center"><div class="col-12 col-md-6 col-lg-9 mb-4 d-flex justify-content-center justify-content-lg-start 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