National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS)

Final Date for NFIRS: Jan. 31, 2026

NFIRS will sunset in February 2026 and will no longer be available. Learn about key points and dates in the NFIRS sunset and transition to NERIS for fire-based, all-hazards incident reporting and analytics.

Any information you submitted to this database will no longer be accessible to you.

If you have been using NFIRS as your records retention system and rely on it to access copies of your incidents, you must retrieve them from the system before the end of the year. Once the system is decommissioned, the incidents will be permanently deleted.

As the move to NERIS progresses, departments should take proactive steps to download and secure their existing NFIRS data before access ends. The NFIRS system will officially sunset on January 31, 2026, after which data retrieval will no longer be available. Departments can find detailed instructions and answers to frequently asked questions on FEMA’s NFIRS Sunset page: https://www.usfa.fema.gov/nfirs/sunset/

In addition to downloading your NFIRS data, consider running an AFG report in the NFIRS Data Warehouse covering the past three years. This will give you a comprehensive view of your department’s incident and operational data—information that can be invaluable when preparing grant applications. Instructions on running the AFG report in the dataware house can be found: https://sfm.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/sfm/sfmdocuments/documents/AFGreportDatawarehouse.pdf.

Overview

Illinois Fire Departments are required by state law to report all incidents, including medical incidents, to the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS), which is administered by the United States Fire Administration. Data submission can be completed in one of two ways:

Direct Entry using the web-based reporting tool.

Importing data from third-party vendor software.

All NFIRS applications are now web-based, and Microsoft Edge is recommended as the web browser for accessing the website at https://nfirs.fema.gov.