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NERIS reporting in Wyoming

Wyoming has 104 fire departments in the federal directory, most of them small and covering long stretches of ground, with no one on staff whose full-time job is filing paperwork. NERIS didn't shrink those distances. It changed the report waiting at the end of the drive back.

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Fire departments in Wyoming

Departments in the directory: 104
Volunteer departments: 46%
Volunteer or combination: 85%
Stations: 269

Across the 43 Wyoming departments that report staffing, the directory holds 1,174 volunteer firefighters and 495 career firefighters; 70% 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.

What the numbers say about Wyoming before anyone tries to sell you something

Start with the gap: Wyoming’s directory holds 104 departments, and only 39 of them have said whether they’re volunteer, combination, or career. That is not a rounding error: the state’s own record is missing a basic fact about most of its fire service. Of the 39 that did answer, 18 are volunteer and 15 are combination, which puts 85% of the departments willing to fill in that field on the volunteer side in some form.

Station reporting tells a different story. 99 of the 104 departments answered that question, and between them they list 269 stations, close to three for every department that reported one. That is not a typo and it is not a spare bay next to the main house. In a state this size, one department often covers ground that would be three or four separate towns somewhere denser, running it out of more than one building, which means there is more than one place an incident report could start before anyone agrees which crew actually ran the call.

Where the report actually gets written

None of that changes who fills it out. Wyoming’s own staffing numbers, from the 43 departments that reported firefighter counts, show 1,174 volunteers against 495 career — seven out of every ten counted firefighters are not paid to be there, and the report isn’t optional either way. In a department built around a small career core and a bench of volunteers, the person writing up a call at two in the morning is frequently the same person who was standing in the room for it.

That’s the actual problem this is built around: get the report close enough to done, talking, that finishing it is faster than starting it from a blank form after the fact.

Worth knowing about Wyoming

Wyoming's directory lists 104 fire departments, and only 39 of them have reported whether they're volunteer, combination, or career — the rest of the state's roster is still blank on that field.
Source: snapshot: WY.department_count, WY.departments_with_type_data
Of the 39 Wyoming departments that did report a type, 18 are volunteer and 15 are combination — 85% of the departments willing to answer that question run on volunteers in some form.
Source: snapshot: WY.by_department_type, WY.departments_with_type_data
99 of Wyoming's 104 departments reported a station count, and between them they run 269 stations — nearly three for every department that answered, not one firehouse apiece.
Source: snapshot: WY.station_count_sum, WY.departments_with_station_data
Across the 43 Wyoming departments that reported firefighter staffing, the directory counts 1,174 volunteers against 495 career firefighters.
Source: snapshot: WY.firefighters_volunteer_sum, WY.firefighters_career_sum, WY.departments_with_staffing_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

AFG — the Assistance to Firefighters Grant — asks applicants to describe their calls and their operations, and Wyoming departments running a station on each end of a long response area are exactly who that program is built for. Whether NERIS reporting counts toward scoring or eligibility isn't something we know or will guess at; that's a question for the notice of funding opportunity, not for us. What we can say plainly is that a report already on file is quicker to point an application at than a season of calls nobody wrote up yet.

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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Department figures: FireMic Supabase departments table (mirror of the NERIS public department directory, ArcGIS layer 0). Snapshot taken July 28, 2026.