Massachusetts Fire Incident Reporting System

MFIRS Annual Data

By law, fire departments must report any fire or explosion resulting in a dollar loss or human casualty to the Division of Fire Safety. Fire departments are encouraged to report all of their incidents.

The data on the fire incident report can be analyzed in a wide variety of ways. Each year a fact sheet is produced summarizing the fire and fire death experience in Massachusetts. The office also publishes an annual report  file size 4MB  of the Massachusetts Fire Incident Reporting System, which is used to answer statistical questions about fire. If you do not have a PDF reader, please download and install Acrobat Reader.

Massachusetts participates in the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS). After we compile the data from Massachusetts' fire departments, we forward it to the U.S. Fire Administration. Although paperwork may seem to have little to do with fire protection, firefighters who carefully document the causes of fires and the make model and serial numbers of products involved in fires help identify how similar fires can be prevented in the future.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission uses NFIRS data to help identify products that could cause fires and to develop safety tips to include in their free publications. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration uses NFIRS information to help identify fire risks in certain vehicles. The National Fire Protection Association uses NFIRS data in many of their analyses.

MFIRS is an automated system. For information for fire departments and software vendors on coding information, forms, electronic reporting, record layout information, software vendor approval, contact Derryl Dion in the Fire Data Unit at (978) 567-3382.

MFIRS Reports & Annual Data

Annual Reports	Annual Fact Sheets	Annual County Data	Annual Suffolk County Data
2011 Annual Report  file size 4MB	2011 Fact Sheet	2011 Counties  file size 2MB	2011 Suffolk County
2010 Annual Report  file size 7MB	2010 Fact Sheet	2010 Counties  file size 1MB	2010 Suffolk County
2009 Annual Report  file size 4MB	2009 Fact Sheet	2009 Counties  file size 3MB	2009 Suffolk County
2008 Annual Report  file size 4MB	2008 Fact Sheet	2008 Counties  file size 2MB	2008 Suffolk County
2007 Annual Report  file size 4MB	2007 Fact Sheet
2006 Annual Report  file size 6MB	2006 Fact Sheet
2005 Annual Report  file size 5MB	2005 Fact Sheet
2004 Annual Report  file size 3MB	2004 Fact Sheet
2003 Annual Report  file size 6MB	2003 Fact Sheet
2002 Annual Report  file size 2MB	2002 Fact Sheet
2001 Annual Report  file size 1MB