A NERIS ID is the permanent identifier NERIS assigns to a fire department, in the form FD followed by eight digits, for example FD34003584. It identifies the department on every incident it files and is the id software uses when filing on the department behalf.

How do I find my department NERIS ID?

Search this page by department name, city, or ZIP code. The directory it searches is the NERIS public fire department directory, so any registered department appears whether or not it uses FireMic. Your NERIS ID is also shown in the NERIS portal under your department profile.

My department is not in the directory. What does that mean?

The directory is a periodic public export, so a very recently registered department may not appear yet. It can also mean the department is registered under a different legal name than the one people use day to day. Search by city or ZIP code before concluding it is missing, then contact the NERIS help desk.

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Every one of the 30,766 fire departments in the NERIS public directory, searchable by name, city, or ZIP code. Pick a state and start typing.

How to read a NERIS ID

FD34003584

Fire department

State FIPS code

The department itself

The middle two digits are the state's federal FIPS code, so every New Jersey department starts FD34 and every Texas department starts FD48.
This is a pattern we measured across the published directory, not a documented rule, and it is not universal: seven District of Columbia departments and all eleven Armed Forces departments carry 51, Virginia's code. Read your ID off the directory rather than constructing one.
The ID is the department, not the incident. It stays the same for the life of the department and appears on everything it files.

FD34… New JerseyFD48… TexasFD06… CaliforniaFD42… Pennsylvania

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Counts from the NERIS public directory, snapshot August 31, 2026.

Where this comes from

This is a copy of the NERIS public fire department directory, taken August 31, 2026. It is published by NERIS, not by us, and it lists every registered department whether or not it has anything to do with FireMic. We reformatted it and added search; we did not add, remove, or estimate a single department.

A department that registered recently may not be in this snapshot yet. If yours is missing, search by city or ZIP first in case it is registered under its legal name, then ask the NERIS help desk at NERIS.Helpdesk@UL.org. We cannot add, edit, or remove a department in NERIS.

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