Department profile
Career (Paid)Ada Fire Department - Central Station
Ada, OK · Pontotoc County. Ada Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 32 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 32
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Ada Fire Department - Central Station pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount more than double the Oklahoma average.
- Top 40%
- national personnel size
- +167%
- vs. Oklahoma average
- 2
- stations
National percentile ranks this department's personnel headcount against every listable U.S. department with reported staffing; the state comparison uses the same personnel figure against its own state's average. Both feed the verdict sentence and the chips above.
A staffing, equipment, EMS-integration, and federal-grant-funding composite benchmarked against every other USFA-registered department nationally, not a safety rating, response-time measure, or comparison of fire risk. Dimensions with no data on file are excluded and their weight redistributed, never counted as zero.
Ada Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department serving Ada, OK (Pontotoc County), with 2 stations and 32 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,923 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #8,923 of 22,440
- OK personnel rank #54 of 513
- 6.25 stations per 100 personnel
- 17 other listed departments in Pontotoc County
Ada Fire Department - Central Station vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
32 Top 40% higher than 60% of 22,440 departments
Listable U.S. fire departments, banded by total personnel
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Source HIFLD fire-station registry · 2026-09-06
Dispatch plate
Sheet 62001 · Ada Fire Department - Central Station, OK 32 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 32
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #8,923
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Troy
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Troy Fire Department, IN (+ 0 personnel)
Career/paid HIFLD roster counts, station rows, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer, and FEMA AFG/SAFER book for this FDID, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every OK department.
- Ada Fire Departme… (this dept) 32
- High Bush Volunteer Fi…, KY 32
- Near Troy, IN 32
- Near Water Valley Volu…, AR 32
- Near Laurel County Fir…, KY 32
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Ada, OK
- County
- Pontotoc County
- FDID
- 62001
Staffing vs the Oklahoma average
How Ada Fire Department - Central Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Oklahoma. In-state it ranks #54 of 513 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,923 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 68
- OK departments
- 1,049
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Pontotoc County
County mix is mostly volunteer (8 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
6.25 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 32 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Troy Fire Department, IN (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 32 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OK department.