Guam · NERIS
NERIS reporting in Guam
Guam's federal directory carries one fire department, not dozens; this page reads that single record straight, states what's actually filed against it, and skips the percentages a sample of one can't support.
Fire departments in Guam
- Departments in the directory
- 1
Source: the NERIS public department directory, as mirrored in our departments table on July 28, 2026. Percentages are stated against the number of departments that actually reported the field, which is always shown next to them. Departments that reported nothing are not counted as zero and no figure here is estimated.
A directory of one
The NERIS public directory carries exactly one fire department for Guam, the smallest count recorded for any state or territory in this snapshot, thinner even than the five departments listed for the District of Columbia or the six for Puerto Rico. That single record is typed CAREER, the only department type Guam’s directory reports at all; there is no volunteer or combination department listed to compare it against.
What the one record says
Against that one department, the directory holds 219 career firefighters and zero volunteers, a protected population of 153,000, and 14 stations. Every number on this page about Guam comes from that single filing, not an estimate, not a statewide roll-up, not a percentage computed from a sample too small to carry one. Where other pages on this site can talk about a volunteer share or a stations-per-department average, this one can’t, honestly: a fraction with a denominator of one isn’t a rate, it’s just the number restated, and this page doesn’t do that.
One department, the same report
A record this thin doesn’t buy an exemption from anything NERIS asks for once a unit actually responds. The incident still runs through the same modules, the same three-level incident-type hierarchy, and the same API as any department with years of filings already on record. Finding out whether narrating a call out loud and reading back what comes out of it works here doesn’t require a bigger sample — it requires recording the next real incident and seeing what comes back before deciding anything past that.
Worth knowing about Guam
Guam's entry in the NERIS public directory lists a single fire department — fewer than any other state or territory in this snapshot; the next-thinnest are the District of Columbia's 5 and Puerto Rico's 6.
Source: snapshot: GU.department_count compared against department_count for every state/territory entry in state-department-snapshot.json
That one department is typed CAREER — the only department type recorded for Guam, with no volunteer or combination department in the directory to weigh against it.
Source: snapshot: GU.by_department_type, GU.departments_with_type_data
The directory credits Guam's department with 219 career firefighters and zero volunteers, drawn from the single department that reports staffing.
Source: snapshot: GU.firefighters_career_sum, GU.firefighters_volunteer_sum, GU.departments_with_staffing_data
It also lists 14 stations and a protected population of 153,000 — again from just the one department that answered those fields.
Source: snapshot: GU.station_count_sum, GU.departments_with_station_data, GU.population_protected_sum, GU.departments_with_population_data
What changed
NERIS replaced NFIRS as the federal fire incident reporting standard onFebruary 1, 2026. It is a different shape of report, not a renamed one: modules instead of flat forms, a three-level text hierarchy instead of numeric incident codes, and an API instead of a file you upload.
What actually changed, in detail · NERIS onboarding (FSRI) · Department sign-up
About grant applications
Guam's one federally listed department is as eligible to apply for an Assistance to Firefighters Grant as a department in any of the fifty states, and that application still asks how the department runs and how many calls it answered. Whether NERIS reporting factors into AFG eligibility or scoring isn't something this page settles — nothing we've read establishes it either way, and guessing at a federal grant program's rules on a vendor's say-so would be a mistake. What's true without guessing: pulling those answers from incident reports already on file is less work than rebuilding a season of calls from memory after the fact.
We are a vendor, not a grant advisor. Do not take our word for what any grant program requires. Read the current notice of funding opportunity or ask your state's grant coordinator.
Try it on a real Guam call
Record one incident, read the report it produces, and decide from there. No account, no card, no call with anyone.
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Department figures: FireMic Supabase departments table (mirror of the NERIS public department directory, ArcGIS layer 0). Snapshot taken July 28, 2026.