What's coming for department records
Regulation, reporting mandates and funding rules change what departments have to be able to prove. Notes on what is moving, and what it means if your records are on paper.
NERIS 1.5 is live, and Incident Analysis is the first module built on top of the incident
NERIS moved to Version 1.5 on October 1, 2026, additive only, with split incident types, new flags and new actions. Incident Analysis, live since June 8, is the first secondary schema. Version 2 is planned by the end of 2026.
OSHA's Emergency Response Standard would make 22 NFPA standards enforceable
OSHA's proposed Emergency Response Standard incorporates 22 NFPA standards by reference, with a final rule projected for April 2027. Following a standard and being able to document it are different things.
NFIRS is offline. NERIS is the only national system.
Incident submission moved to NERIS exclusively on January 1, 2026, and NFIRS went dark in February after fifty years. Historical NFIRS data is an archive on OpenFEMA; it does not flow into NERIS.