Departments that need help getting onto NERIS
See which departments publish each month, the share by county, and the largest departments still missing from the feed. That list is where a readiness visit or a training slot does the most good.
Already in Your State
A free risk profile for every department you serve
Every fire department registered in NERIS already has a free public page here, including the ones in your state. Each page maps the department's service area and lays out what its community faces: natural hazards, the people most at risk, fire and EMS risk factors, the incidents it has reported to NERIS, and similar departments to compare it with. The data downloads as CSV and the maps as images.
We built them for the chief who has to write the grant, brief the council, or start a CRR plan without an analyst on staff. They need no login, and they stay free whatever your office decides about the briefing.
Each state page also ranks its counties by risk and lists every department with a link to its profile. Browse all states.
After NFIRS
A statewide view built on NERIS
Your office is likely helping departments move to NERIS while still fielding questions about the state's fire problem as the feed fills in. NERIS is a real step forward: incidents arrive about two months after the call, and every department comes with a boundary, so incidents can be counted per resident in each department's own area. The briefing gathers that data for every department in your state and sets it beside the same public risk data used in the free profiles.
Inside the Briefing
Answers to the questions your office is asked
The briefing has two parts: a private web page for your staff that refreshes monthly, and a quarterly report. The roster, NERIS adoption, and risk pages cover every registered department from the first day. Incident rates fill in as each department reaches six months of published data.
The next smoke alarm canvass
Every census tract in the state is ranked by fire and EMS priority, pairing community risk with the incidents NERIS places there. Filter by county, export as CSV for grant scoring, and see which departments to call first for each prevention program.
Each department next to the state median
Cooking fires, lift assists, vehicle collisions, structure fires, and false alarms per 1,000 residents, set against the state median. These are the numbers a smoke alarm, fall-prevention, or cooking-safety program is judged on.
A report for the legislature
The quarterly report covers the state in eight pages and each department on one page, ready for a budget hearing, an update to the governor's office, or a department that asks how it compares.
- Fire fatality records: place your own records on the priority map to check the tract ranking against where deaths have happened.
- Roster and map: every department and station in the state on one screen.
- Notes and follow-up: your staff can mark each department contacted, scheduled, or done and leave notes on any department or tract, so the record of who was called and what was promised stays in one place.
- Response times, fire cause, and loss: the public feed carries none of these, so they appear only for the departments you sponsor. Every other department shows public data.
Nothing in the briefing is published. Your staff log in, and partners such as a CRR task force can get a read-only link. A department's page compares it with the state median and does not rank it against its neighbors. Your office decides what is shared.
Counties and Compacts
The same briefing for a county or a compact
County fire authorities, mutual-aid councils, and councils of governments get the same briefing scoped to their own roster, from $4,800 per year after the free pilot. It has its own page, written for county boards and regional councils: the county and compact briefing.
Free 90-Day Pilot
Free for the first 90 days
The pilot gives your staff the full briefing, the current quarterly report, and the exports for every department in your jurisdiction. It needs no purchase order, and a one-page no-cost pilot agreement is available. At day 90 the briefing closes unless you continue, and nothing is billed. If you continue, the setup carries over and the paid term starts when the pilot ends or on your fiscal year.
Sponsored Subscriptions
Response Analytics for the departments you choose
Sponsorship is up to your office. Sponsor departments one at a time, for example the departments in a readiness or training program, and add more whenever you like. Sponsor every department in your jurisdiction that connects its NERIS integration, for one flat annual fee stated in your quote. Or sponsor none and keep the briefing on public data. Each sponsored department approves us in its NERIS portal once, in about 15 minutes, and the first nightly pull fills its dashboard with up to 12 months of history. One agreement with your office covers every sponsored department, and each department keeps its own dashboard and owns its data.
Each department gets
- Response times next to risk, tract by tract
- NFPA 1750 goal tracking by station, shift, and hour
- Effective response force, concurrent calls, and unit hour utilization
- Fire cause and loss, including civilian deaths and injuries
- A CRR tracker, a weekly brief, a monthly board packet, and grant exports
Your office gets
- Each sponsored department's response performance beside its risk in the briefing
- Fire deaths, injuries, and dollar loss for sponsored departments
- Nightly refresh for sponsored departments instead of monthly
- The option to swap any department that does not activate
Pricing
Two line items
Briefing and quarterly report
From $14,000 per year
Priced on the number of departments registered in NERIS in your state. Counties, compacts, and councils of governments start at $4,800 per year on their own page. The term can start on your fiscal year.
Sponsored Response Analytics
By department or the whole jurisdiction
Sponsor one department at a time or every department in your jurisdiction that connects, with volume discounts stated in your quote. Departments with 15 or more stations are priced on their own, and sponsorships can be added during the pilot or after.
- The free 90-day pilot comes first, and the paid term starts when it ends or on your fiscal year.
- 15% off a three-year term.
- Analyst time: $200 per hour, quoted first.
- Every department keeps its free risk profile and free NERIS Data Quality check. Departments that already subscribe keep their accounts. See department pricing.
Procurement
Ready for your purchasing office
Procurement can run while your staff use the pilot, and a quote can be issued for a budget request months before the term starts. For a formal quote, email [email protected] with your jurisdiction and department count.
Purchase orders
We invoice against a PO on your terms and your fiscal calendar. Invoices can carry your contract or requisition number.
W-9 and vendor registration
A W-9 is available on request. We complete vendor registration, supplier portals, insurance certificates, and disclosure forms.
Sole-source letter
A signed letter for your file that describes the product and its data. If you need a competitive solicitation instead, we will supply what it takes to run one.
Data ownership
Departments own their NERIS records and can revoke access at any time. Data is hosted in the United States and encrypted. Incident data, from NERIS or uploaded by the department, is deleted 90 days after a subscription ends. See the security page.
The Team
Built by a former state fire marshal's office analyst
Founder
Ian Morelan, PhD
Oregon State University
I worked as a research analyst at the Oregon Office of State Fire Marshal, building data products on wildfire risk and community vulnerability. I know how small a state office's data team is and how many departments it answers for, and the briefing follows the questions a legislature asks: where risk is concentrated, which programs are reaching it, and which departments are reporting. After Oregon I did deployment and station-location analysis with Manitou, Inc. for departments in four states. More about the team.
Data sources
NERIS Public, Census ACS 2024, FEMA National Risk Index v1.20, and OpenFEMA disaster declarations, all public and documented on the methodology and data sources pages.
NERIS Integrated
Get Started
Start a pilot or request a demo
Tell us your state and we will set up the free 90-day pilot and send your logins. If you would rather see it first, we will walk you through the briefing with your own state's departments on screen.