When CFA attends a fire or other incident (e.g. road rescue) a report is prepared on the characteristics of the incident and entered into FIRS. Data available in FIRS include type of incident (e.g. bushfire/grassfire, road rescue, residential fires), call characteristics, area characteristics, rescue information, measures for hazardous materials (if applicable), ignition sources, fire fighting (e.g. how the fire was extinguished) and structure characteristics. By collecting information on fire and incidents FIRS assists with better understanding of the prevalence of each incident and contributing factors to incidents. Data are collected on an ongoing basis and have been captured since 1994. Fixed property use is a mandatory field in FIRS.

SA Country Fire Service responds to a range of incidents across South Australia. This data set provides information on incidents attended by CFS.

CFA captures data on community-based information and education interventions provided by CFA staff and volunteers. These include community meetings, Home Bushfire Advisory Service (HBAS) visits and School Education Programs. Data are captured by location across Victoria to monitor intervention coverage. Many of these interventions were implemented as a result of recommendations made by the 2009 Victorian Bushfire Royal Commission (VBRC). Data are captured since inception of each program (2009-2010).

The 2009 US Fire Administration Fire (USFA) Fire Incident & Cause Data was provided by the U.S. Fire Administration's (USFA) National Fire Data Center's (NFDC's) National Fire Incident Reporting System has numerous data elements that detail fire incidents for example the fire department fire incident the occupants structure and equipment used hazard material involved and casualty details.

The 2005 US Fire Administration Fire (USFA) Fire Incident & Cause Data was provided by the U.S. Fire Administration's (USFA) National Fire Data Center's (NFDC's) National Fire Incident Reporting System has numerous data elements that detail fire incidents for example the fire department fire incident the occupants structure and equipment used hazard material involved and casualty details.

Response time is measured from when the brigade is alerted to an event to when the first brigade vehicle arrives on scene. CFA publish response time data on a quarterly basis for brigades with a high volume of emergency events. If a Brigade Area had less than 10 emergency events in the reporting period, the Brigade Area will not be included in the data. Hazard Class defines the type of risk for a given area. Each Brigade Area may contain multiple hazard classes and are reported on separately. CFA’s Service Delivery Standards (SDS) defines targets for response time to an emergency incident, for each Hazard Class. Further detailed information about CFA emergency response times data can be found at http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/about/emergency-response-times/

The 2002 US Fire Administration Fire (USFA) Fire Incident & Cause Data was provided by the U.S. Fire Administration's (USFA) National Fire Data Center's (NFDC's) National Fire Incident Reporting System has numerous data elements that detail fire incidents for example the fire department fire incident the occupants structure and equipment used hazard material involved and casualty details.

Note: This is a large dataset. To download, go to ArcGIS Open Data Set and click the download button, and under additional resources select the geodatabase or shapefile option. This data publication contains a spatial database of wildfires that occurred in the United States from 1992 to 2018. It is the fourth update of a publication originally generated to support the national Fire Program Analysis (FPA) system. The wildfire records were acquired from the reporting systems of federal, state, and local fire organizations. The following core data elements were required for records to be included in this data publication: discovery date, final fire size, and a point location at least as precise as a Public Land Survey System (PLSS) section (1-square mile grid). The data were transformed to conform, when possible, to the data standards of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG), including an updated wildfire-cause standard (approved August 2020). Basic error-checking was performed and redundant records were identified and removed, to the degree possible. In addition to incorporating data for 2016-2018, some previously unavailable nonfederal wildfire records for the period 1999-2015 were acquired either directly from the state fire services (NH, NJ) or indirectly from an updated National Association of State Foresters database (AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, HI, ID, IL, OK, SD) and added. The resulting product, referred to as the Fire Program Analysis fire-occurrence database (FPA FOD), includes 2.17 million geo-referenced wildfire records, representing a total of 165 million acres burned during the 27-year period. Identifiers necessary to link the point-based, final-fire-reporting information to published large-fire-perimeter and operational-situation-reporting datasets are included.,

NFIRS has two objectives to help State and local governments develop fire reporting and analysis capability for their own use and to obtain data that can be used to more accurately assess and subsequently combat the fire problem at a national level.