Facts About NFIRS

Participating fire departments report 23,000,000 incidents and 1,000,000 fires each year.

• NFIRS is the world's largest, national, annual database of fire incident information.
• 50 states and the District of Columbia report NFIRS data.
• 37 fire departments with a population protected of over 500,000 participate in the NFIRS.
• About 23,000 fire departments report in the NFIRS each year.
• The NFIRS database comprises 75 percent of all reported fires that occur annually.

Related Content

• Fire Statistics
• Firefighter Casualties
• National Fire Department Census

Fire Data Analysis Guidelines & Issues

This document discusses analytic considerations and methods of analyzing fire incident data using NFIRS 5.0. The topics include data structure, general quality assurance issues and definitions and parameters of common fire analyses.

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National Fire Incident Reporting System Version 5.0 Fire Data Analysis Guidelines and Issues (PDF, 915 Kb)

NFIRS State Points of Contact

Links of Interest

• National Association of State Fire Marshals
• National Fire Information Council