On a scale of outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate, North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service was rated as follows: Like all areas of the country, independent fire brigades developed in towns and cities across England which catered for the immediate area and were sponsored by the local authority.

[17] In October 2021, the incumbent commissioner Philip Allott resigned following comments surrounding the murder of Sarah Everard.

The fire service also shares the transport and logistics hub in Thirsk with North Yorkshire Police.

[23] By 2016, this had dropped to 15,000 and received notoriety when a crew in Harrogate was delayed in getting to a car fire after it emerged they had been sent to the wrong location by a control room in Cornwall.

NYFRS shares its control room operations with the Cornwall Fire & Rescue Service during peak periods.

A later investigation determined that the mix-up was down to the caller not supplying timely information rather than the Cornish operator not having 'local' knowledge.