Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderApex Fire Department
Apex, NC · Wake County. Apex Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 77 total personnel. The department also provides EMS services. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 77
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Apex Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the North Carolina average.
- Top 7%
- national personnel size
- +196%
- vs. North Carolina average
- 3
- 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.
Apex Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Apex, NC (Wake County), with 3 stations and 77 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,574 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,574 of 22,440
- NC personnel rank #38 of 932
- 3.90 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 24 other listed departments in Wake County
Apex Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
77 Top 7% higher than 93% 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 09205 · Apex Fire Department, NC 77 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 77
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,574
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Clovis
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Clovis Fire Department, NM (+ 0 personnel)
Volunteer 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 NC department.
- Apex (this dept) 77
- High Fleetwood Volunte…, PA 77
- Near Clovis, NM 77
- Near Cromwell Fire Dep…, CT 77
- Near Mineral County Fi…, NV 77
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Apex, NC
- County
- Wake County
- FDID
- 09205
Staffing vs the North Carolina average
How Apex Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #38 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,574 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 131
- NC departments
- 1,534
County roster fringe
Apex Fire Department is 4.5% of Wake County roster mass
The county lists 37 departments totaling 1,707 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 84% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.90 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 77 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Clovis Fire Department, NM (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 77 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NC department.