Introduction to Fire Hydrant Inspections

Fire Hydrant Inspections can be used to perform routine fire hydrant inspections and monitor fire department hydrant inspection programs that ensure every hydrant performs reliably when an emergency occurs.

Every year, firefighters and civilians are injured or killed in structure fires. When a structure fire occurs, every second counts, and a proper water supply can mean the difference between life and death. Hydrant inspections enable fire agencies to assess hydrant operability, test for adequate water supply, and properly allocate resources based on hydrant locations.

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 291 Standard guides fire and water departments through best practices for water flow testing and fire hydrant marking. Per NFPA 291, hydrants should be flushed and inspected annually, and flow tests should be completed every five years. While hydrant inspections may seem like a given today, they are often neglected for other duties, and are especially time consuming if still done on paper. Forward-thinking fire departments have implemented procedures that streamline hydrant inspections and simplify access to information during an incident.

The Fire Hydrant Inspections solution delivers a set of capabilities that help you inventory fire hydrants, conduct routine inspections, monitor hydrant inspection programs, and share operating status with firefighters.

Note:

If you work for a water utility and need to conduct routine hydrant inspections to better understand asset conditions, you may be interested in the Water Utility Hydrant Inspections solution instead.

Deploy the solution

This solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

Deploy the solution

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

Fire Hydrant Inspections requires the following:

• ArcGIS Online
• ArcGIS Field Maps

Information products

Fire Hydrant Inspections includes the following information products:

Item	Description	Minimum user type
Fire Hydrant Inspections	An ArcGIS Field Maps map used by firefighters to inspect the condition of hydrants and document defects.	Mobile Worker
Fire Hydrant Inspections Dashboard	An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by fire command staff to monitor hydrant inspection programs.	Viewer
Fire Hydrant Inspections Notebook	An ArcGIS Notebooks app used by fire analyst to assign hydrant inspections to specific stations and shifts.	Creator
FireHydrant_currentinspection layer	A feature layer used by fire personnel to share hydrant locations, flow rate, and operating status in other public safety information systems.	Viewer

When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get a solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

Version	Description
4.0 (Nov 2025)	The FireHydrant_flowtest and FireHydrantOperability_flowrate feature layer views have been removed from the solution. As a result, the following updates have been made: These feature layer views have been replaced by the FireHydrant_currentinspection feature layer, which provides fire hydrant operability and flow rate information. The solution has been restructured to resolve an issue where users were unable to transfer ownership of the FireHydrantOperability_flowrate feature layer view between user accounts (BUG-000179331). The Fire Hydrant Inspections web map has been updated with an improved editing form. The Fire Hydrant Inspections Notebook app has been updated to use only the WaterDistributionSystem feature layer and includes additional options for the types of inspections assigned at a user-defined frequency. The update also resolves a spatial mismatch issue between feature layers used in the notebook (BUG-000168413). The Fire Hydrant Inspections Dashboard app and web map have been updated to use the FireHydrant_dashboard feature layer view to align with best practices.
3.0 (Mar 2025)	The WaterDistributionSystem feature layer and feature layer views have been updated to provide more detailed attribution for supply features and to add support for editor tracking fields. The Fire Hydrant Inspections Notebook app has been updated to use the new FireHydrant_firehydrants and FireHydrantOperability_flowrate feature layer views. The Fire Hydrant Inspections web map and Fire Hydrant Inspections Dashboard web map and app have been updated to use the new feature layer and feature layer views. Reference documentation topics for this release.
2.0 (Jun 2023)	A new Fire Hydrant Inspections map that can be used with ArcGIS Field Maps. A new Fire Hydrant Inspections Dashboard. A new Fire Hydrant Inspections Notebook. A new Fire Hydrant Operability layer.
1.1 (Jun 2021)	A new Fire Hydrant Inspections map that can be used with ArcGIS Field Maps. A new Fire Hydrant Inspections Dashboard. A new FireHydrants_public feature layer view that can be used to share the location of fire hydrants and their operating status with internal stakeholders. A series of enhancements to the FireHydrants layer and related feature layer views.
1.0 (Nov 2020)	First release of Fire Hydrant Inspections