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NERIS reporting in Nevada

Nevada's federal directory lists 71 fire departments, and the split between volunteer, combination, and career runs closer than the department count alone suggests. NERIS asks the same modules of whichever one signs your paycheck.

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Fire departments in Nevada

Departments in the directory: 71
Volunteer departments: 41%
Volunteer or combination: 78%
Stations: 295

Across the 60 Nevada departments that report staffing, the directory holds 1,103 volunteer firefighters and 2,851 career firefighters; 28% of those counted are volunteers.

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.

The middle category is not a footnote here

Nevada’s directory lists 71 fire departments. Of the 59 that report a department type, 24 are volunteer, 22 are combination, and 13 are career. Volunteer edges out combination by only two departments. Combination alone, at 37% of the departments that answered, sits close enough to the 41% that are volunteer that calling Nevada simply “a volunteer state” or “a career state” misses what’s actually running the trucks. A department blending a paid crew with a volunteer roster isn’t the exception here; it’s nearly as common as either pure model. NERIS doesn’t ask a shorter set of questions depending on which one a department is; the module list is the same whether the crew on scene got paid to be there or not.

Look past the department count and the shape changes. Of the 60 Nevada departments that report firefighter staffing, the directory counts 2,851 career firefighters against 1,103 volunteers — career firefighters outnumber volunteers by more than two to one, despite career being the smallest of the three department types by count. Something similar shows up in the population field: only 16 of Nevada’s 71 departments report a population they protect, and those 16 alone add up to 1,802,798. Sixty-one of Nevada’s departments report a station count too, totaling 295, or 4.8 stations for each of them. Read together, these numbers point the same direction: a handful of larger, multi-station departments carrying a disproportionate share of staffing, population, and reporting volume, next to a longer list of smaller departments filing the same paperwork with less behind them.

What that means for the report itself

None of that changes what shows up on the screen after a call. A two-person volunteer department and a multi-station combination department file into the same incident-type hierarchy and the same module set, and neither gets a shorter form for being smaller. Recording what happened and reading back the structured version of it is the same offer either way, and it doesn’t require deciding first which kind of department you’re running. Try it on the next call and see whether what comes back is worth finishing.

Worth knowing about Nevada

Nevada's directory lists 71 fire departments. Of the 59 that report a department type, 24 are volunteer, 22 are combination, and 13 are career — volunteer edges out combination by only two departments.
Source: snapshot: NV.department_count, NV.by_department_type, NV.departments_with_type_data
Combination departments make up 37% of Nevada's 59 typed departments (22 of 59), close enough to the 41% that are volunteer that neither a 'volunteer state' nor a 'career state' description fits well.
Source: snapshot: NV.by_department_type, NV.departments_with_type_data
Across the 60 Nevada departments that report firefighter staffing, the directory counts 2,851 career firefighters against 1,103 volunteers, even though career departments are the smallest of the three types by count.
Source: snapshot: NV.firefighters_career_sum, NV.firefighters_volunteer_sum, NV.departments_with_staffing_data, NV.by_department_type
295 stations are reported across 61 of Nevada's 71 departments — 4.8 stations for every department that answered, not a single firehouse apiece.
Source: snapshot: NV.station_count_sum, NV.departments_with_station_data
Only 16 of Nevada's 71 departments report a population-protected figure at all, and those 16 alone total 1,802,798 — too thin a slice of the roster to call it statewide coverage.
Source: snapshot: NV.population_protected_sum, NV.departments_with_population_data, NV.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

An Assistance to Firefighters Grant application asks a Nevada department to describe its call volume and its operations, and that part is easier to answer from incident reports already filed than from a stretch of calls somebody still has to reconstruct. Whether NERIS participation itself factors into how AFG applications get scored isn't something this page is positioned to say — that determination sits with the program's own notice of funding opportunity, not with a company that sells reporting software. Read that document, or ask your department's grant contact, before assuming either way.

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.

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