NERIS reporting, state by state
NERIS replaced NFIRS as the federal fire incident reporting standard onFebruary 1, 2026. The transition is national, but the shape of the problem is not: a state of small volunteer companies and a state of large career departments are solving different versions of it.
The NERIS public department directory lists30,740 fire departmentsacross 53 states and territories. Of the25,620 that report a department type,17,841 are volunteer and4,914 are combination.
Counts are of fire departments in the country, from the directory as ofJuly 28, 2026, not counts of anything to do with us.
States with a page
- Alabama1,123 departments
- Alaska147 departments
- Arizona206 departments
- Arkansas945 departments
- California765 departments
- Colorado331 departments
- Connecticut263 departments
- Delaware67 departments
- District of Columbia5 departments
- Florida495 departments
- Georgia519 departments
- Guam1 departments
- Hawaii10 departments
- Idaho240 departments
- Illinois1,104 departments
- Indiana830 departments
- Iowa805 departments
- Kansas561 departments
- Kentucky816 departments
- Louisiana483 departments
- Maine406 departments
- Maryland364 departments
- Massachusetts370 departments
- Michigan1,012 departments
- Minnesota767 departments
- Mississippi717 departments
- Missouri821 departments
- Montana334 departments
- Nebraska464 departments
- Nevada71 departments
- New Hampshire223 departments
- New Jersey730 departments
- New Mexico292 departments
- New York1,790 departments
- North Carolina1,227 departments
- North Dakota361 departments
- Ohio1,215 departments
- Oklahoma939 departments
- Oregon355 departments
- Pennsylvania2,172 departments
- Puerto Rico6 departments
- Rhode Island66 departments
- South Carolina506 departments
- South Dakota340 departments
- Tennessee679 departments
- Texas1,883 departments
- Utah228 departments
- Vermont230 departments
- Virginia688 departments
- Washington426 departments
- West Virginia437 departments
- Wisconsin801 departments
- Wyoming104 departments