NFIRS

Introduction Data from the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) is now available from the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) for 2015. The agency collects data reported from the majority of fire departments across the country. While working with fire departments, in my current role, I’ve observed that most reporting agencies provide detailed information about every incident along with times associated with each of the incident’s responding units. Additional details accompany serious fires, mutual aid responses, casualties (injuries and deaths), and assorted special circumstances (such as hazardous materials and wildfires).

Hi everyone. As a data analyst specializing in public safety for CPSM, I come across National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) data pretty regularly. Usually, I examine a single fire department at a time, but it’s also collected nationally by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. After it’s collected, a portion of the information is provided to interested researchers for review. You request the data and it arrives via US Mail on a CD.