Every US fire department filed incident reports to a federal system for 46 years. That system is gone, and the archive it left behind ships as multi-gigabyte zip files in four incompatible formats. We loaded all of it. Query your ZIP, city, county or state — including the years your records software never had.
Real records from the federal archive — not sample data. ZIP search is free: it returns a random sample of recent incidents so you can confirm the data is genuine. A subscription returns the complete history for a city, county or state.
Enter a ZIP code, or pick one of the examples, to pull live records.
These are the questions the archive can answer that no records-management system can — because vendors only carry data forward from the day you installed them.
Normalised per department, because participation changed: 8,164 departments filed in 1980 versus 21,366 in 2025. Raw totals would measure paperwork, not fire.
Fire-category incidents only, so the eras compare like for like. NFIRS timestamps are minute-resolution, so values land on whole minutes.
Fires are 3.6% of the modern call load. This single chart is why "fire department" data and "EMS" data cannot be separated any more.
ZIP search is free and always will be — it is how you check the data is real. Subscriptions start at city level and include the full 1980–2025 depth for the area, the grant-ready report export, and the data-quality flags that catch mis-keyed federal records before you cite them.
National coverage and vendor integrations are quoted per engagement. Month-to-month — no annual lock-in, because the underlying federal dataset carries no availability guarantee.
Subscriptions start at city level. Tell us the area and we'll open an account against it. If you're a fire department asking about your own history, say so — that case is straightforward and we handle it first.
Already know you need a custom cut — multiple counties, a statewide vendor feed, an integration? Say so in the area field and we'll quote it.