# Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service: spending, staff and incidents url: https://whereyourmoneygoes.co.uk/fire-and-rescue/northern-ireland/ updated: 29 September 2026 licence: Our words, analysis, charts and derived calculations: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), credit [Tekstak Ltd](https://tek-stak.co.uk). Figures: each source's own licence, listed under Sources. publisher: [Tekstak Ltd](https://tek-stak.co.uk) # Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service: spending, staff and incidents Last updated 29 September 2026. Figures refresh every night. [How each figure is worked out](/methodology/). **£104m** for Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service in 2024-25, **£53.89** per resident, +5.3% on a year earlier after inflation. It attended 24,068 incidents in 2024-25. Figure as of 1 March 2026. Source: [Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service](https://www.nifrs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Annual-Report-2024-25-Final.pdf). ## Key figures - £104m2024-25, cash +9.6% on a year earlier As of 1 March 2026 - £53.89Per resident, 2024-25 As of 1 March 2026 - 2,013 FTEStaff, full-time equivalent, 2024-25 Northern Ireland: 2,013 FTE As of 1 March 2026 - 67 stationsFire stations, 2024-25 Northern Ireland: 67 stations As of 1 March 2026 - 12.5 per 1,000 residentsIncidents mobilised to per 1,000 residents, 2024-25 Northern Ireland: 12.5 per 1,000 residents As of 1 March 2026 Source: [Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service](https://www.nifrs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Annual-Report-2024-25-Final.pdf). ## Over time: cash, real terms and per resident **Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service: spending in cash and in 2025-26 prices, £ million** Real terms use HM Treasury’s GDP deflator, 2025-26 prices. Breaks in the series: 2013-14: Scotland’s eight fire and rescue services merged into the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service on 1 April 2013. 2016-17: Dorset and Wiltshire fire and rescue services combined on 1 April 2016; statistics before then are added together for the combined area. 2017-18: Greater Manchester’s fire and rescue authority passed to the Greater Manchester mayor (May 2017), and London’s (the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority) to the Mayor of London (April 2018); both report their spending inside GMCA and the GLA. 2019-20: Northamptonshire’s fire and rescue service moved from the county council to the police, fire and crime commissioner (January 2019). 2021-22: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight fire services combined on 1 April 2021; earlier spending adds Hampshire’s fire authority and the Isle of Wight Council’s fire spending. 2023-24: Cumbria’s fire and rescue service moved from Cumbria County Council to the police, fire and crime commissioner on 1 April 2023, when the county was abolished. 2024-25: North Yorkshire’s fire and rescue service passed to the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority’s mayor in May 2024 and reports its spending there. 2025-26: Responsibility for fire statistics in England moved from the Home Office to MHCLG on 1 April 2025; the tables continue unchanged. **The numbers behind this chart** | Year | Real terms (2025-26 prices) | Cash | | --- | --- | --- | | 2022-23Details | £100.3m | £88.5m | | Cash£88.5m | | | | 2023-24Details | £102.1m | £94.8m | | Cash£94.8m | | | | 2024-25Details | £107.5m | £103.9m | | Cash£103.9m | | | Figure as of 1 March 2026. Source: [Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service](https://www.nifrs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Annual-Report-2024-25-Final.pdf). **Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service: spending per resident, 2025-26 prices** Per resident divides by ONS mid-year population estimates. **The numbers behind this chart** | Year | Per resident, 2025-26 prices | Per resident, cash | | --- | --- | --- | | 2022-23Details | £53 | £46 | | Per resident, cash£46 | | | | 2023-24Details | £53 | £49 | | Per resident, cash£49 | | | | 2024-25Details | £56 | £54 | | Per resident, cash£54 | | | Figure as of 1 March 2026. Source: [Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service](https://www.nifrs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Annual-Report-2024-25-Final.pdf). Source: Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service, [Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service, Annual Report and Accounts 2024-25 (Long-Term Expenditure Trends, audited)](https://www.nifrs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Annual-Report-2024-25-Final.pdf), published 1 March 2026. ## Where it sits, and what is below it - UK total - Nation - Department or service body not published - Local body - Spending category not published - Line or transaction not published - Fire and rescue, United Kingdom - Fire and rescue, Northern Ireland - Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service ### Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service Net expenditure against the revenue resource limit, excluding non-cash expenditure. **£104m** in 2024-25 (cash); £108m in 2025-26 prices; £53.89 per resident; +9.6% on a year earlier in cash, +5.3% in real terms. **Spending category: not published.** NIFRS publishes its spending only in its annual report and accounts (PDF); no breakdown by activity is shown here. Cash is as published. Real terms are in 2025-26 prices, using HM Treasury’s GDP deflator. Per resident divides by ONS mid-year population for the area the body serves. Changes compare the same body in consecutive years. ## What these figures do and don't show - **Incidents are not only fires.** Fire and rescue services also attend road accidents, floods, other emergencies and false alarms; the figures say which is which. - **Response times are published for England only.** Wales and Scotland publish none by service, and Northern Ireland reports against its own attendance standards, so no response time is compared across nations. - **Nations count differently.** Each nation’s statistics define incidents, staff and deaths in their own way; figures are compared within a nation, and across nations only where the definitions match. - **Nothing here shows cause and effect.** Money, staff, stations and incidents are shown side by side. A service covering a large rural area needs more stations for the same number of incidents. - **Appliance counts stopped in 2021** in England; the last published figure is marked as such. Where this sits: Fire and rescue, United Kingdom → Fire and rescue, Northern Ireland → Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service. Figures from data/services/fire.json, generated 29 September 2026. ## Use this data The figures belong to the bodies that published them and are used under their terms, listed in [Sources for this page](#sources); most are Crown copyright under the Open Government Licence. Only our own words, analysis, charts and derived calculations are ours, published under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/): reuse them, including commercially, if you credit [Tekstak Ltd](https://tek-stak.co.uk) and link back to this page. ### Download - [Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service: the dataset (CSV)](/data/services/fire.csv) [JSON](/data/services/fire.json) - [All data, field definitions and licences](/data/) ## Sources for this page | Source | Publisher | Figures as of | Updated | Licence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service, Annual Report and Accounts 2024-25 (Long-Term Expenditure Trends, audited)](https://www.nifrs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Annual-Report-2024-25-Final.pdf) | Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service | 1 March 2026 | annual | [Quoted with attribution (the publisher’s own terms)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/30) link only | | [Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service, Annual Report and Accounts 2024-25 (service delivery statistics and SPI 9)](https://www.nifrs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Annual-Report-2024-25-Final.pdf) | Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service | 1 March 2026 | annual | [Quoted with attribution (the publisher’s own terms)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/30) link only | Each source's figures are used under the licence shown. Our own words, analysis, charts and derived calculations are ours, under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). ## Related pages - [Back to Fire and rescue: funding, staff, stations and incidents](https://whereyourmoneygoes.co.uk/fire-and-rescue/) - [Where does my tax money actually go?](https://whereyourmoneygoes.co.uk/for-every-100-pounds-of-tax/) - [How much is council tax and what does it pay for?](https://whereyourmoneygoes.co.uk/council-tax/) - [How much crime is there where I live?](https://whereyourmoneygoes.co.uk/crime/) ## More from this publisher - [UK tax calculators](https://howlongisit.co.uk) Published by [Tekstak Ltd](https://tek-stak.co.uk). Our words, analysis, charts and derived calculations: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), credit [Tekstak Ltd](https://tek-stak.co.uk). The figures belong to the publishers listed under Sources and are used under their licences. Figures last updated 29 September 2026.