Hawaii · NERIS
NERIS reporting in Hawaii
Hawaii's NERIS directory lists ten fire departments, and most of what this page could report (type, staffing, stations, population) only comes from a handful of them. That's worth reading plainly instead of rounding up to sound more complete than it is.
Fire departments in Hawaii
- Departments in the directory
- 10
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.
Ten departments, and a type field only six of them filled in
Hawaii’s directory lists 10 fire departments. Six of them have answered the department-type question at all, and among those six, none is recorded as VOLUNTEER: five are CAREER, one is COMBINATION. Read that field on its own and it says Hawaii’s fire service runs entirely on paid and mixed staff, with no volunteer companies anywhere in the state.
The staffing count doesn’t say the same thing
It doesn’t, quite. One more department, seven rather than six, reports firefighter headcounts, and inside that count sit 150 volunteer firefighters alongside 2,409 career firefighters. Somewhere between the six departments that answered the type question and the seventh that only answered the staffing one, Hawaii’s volunteer fire service shows up in the numbers even though it’s invisible in the category field. This page isn’t going to guess which department that is, or what “combination” is quietly covering — the directory doesn’t say, and neither will we.
Stations mostly answered; who’s protected mostly not
Stations are the field with the fullest response here: 118 of them, reported across 7 of the 10 departments, an average of 17 per department reporting, and not one firehouse apiece by a wide margin. Population protected runs the other way. Only 3 of the 10 departments report who they cover, and those three add up to 1,313,000 people, a real number but 30% of the directory, not a figure this page is going to call statewide coverage.
What one recorded call can tell you anyway
None of that changes what one recorded incident actually tests. A department this directory barely describes and one it has fully on file go through the identical check: say what happened, read the structured version back, and see whether it matches well enough to trust with the next call.
Worth knowing about Hawaii
Hawaii's directory lists 10 fire departments, and only 6 of the 10 have reported a department type at all — the rest of the roster is blank on that field.
Source: snapshot: HI.department_count, HI.departments_with_type_data
Of the 6 Hawaii departments that report a type, none is recorded as VOLUNTEER — 5 are CAREER and 1 is COMBINATION.
Source: snapshot: HI.by_department_type, HI.departments_with_type_data
One more Hawaii department reports firefighter staffing than reports a department type — 7 versus 6 — and that staffing count includes 150 volunteer firefighters against 2,409 career firefighters, despite no department in the type field being marked volunteer.
Source: snapshot: HI.departments_with_staffing_data, HI.departments_with_type_data, HI.firefighters_volunteer_sum, HI.firefighters_career_sum
118 stations are reported across 7 of Hawaii's 10 departments, an average of 17 per department reporting — not one firehouse apiece.
Source: snapshot: HI.station_count_sum, HI.departments_with_station_data
Only 3 of Hawaii's 10 departments report a population-protected figure, summing to 1,313,000 — 30% of the directory, too small a share to describe as statewide coverage.
Source: snapshot: HI.population_protected_sum, HI.departments_with_population_data, HI.department_count
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
Hawaii's own department directory is thin on staffing and call-volume detail, which is the whole subject of this page. An Assistance to Firefighters Grant application asks for something a directory was never built to hold: your department's actual call counts, staffing, and equipment, answered by you rather than looked up in a public file. We won't guess at whether NERIS participation feeds into how that application gets scored — nothing available to us says either way, and a vendor guessing at federal grant rules isn't worth reading. The narrow, checkable part: filling in those application fields from incident reports you've already submitted is less work than rebuilding a year of runs from memory once the application is already open.
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 Hawaii 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.