Department profile
Career (Paid)Auburn Fire Department
Auburn, IN · De Kalb County. Auburn Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 31 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 31
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Auburn Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Indiana average.
- Top 42%
- national personnel size
- +35%
- vs. Indiana 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.
Auburn Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Auburn, IN (De Kalb County), with 2 stations and 31 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #9,449 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #9,449 of 22,440
- IN personnel rank #207 of 589
- 6.45 stations per 100 personnel
- 8 other listed departments in De Kalb County
Auburn Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
31 Top 42% higher than 58% 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 17003 · Auburn Fire Department, IN 31 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 31
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-MID #9,449
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ East Side Volunte…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: East Side Volunteer Fire Department, LA (+ 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 IN department.
- Auburn (this dept) 31
- High Hoonah Volunteer, AK 31
- Near East Side Volunte…, LA 31
- Near Stonewood Volunte…, WV 31
- Near Wallace Volunteer, WV 31
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Auburn, IN
- County
- De Kalb County
- FDID
- 17003
Staffing vs the Indiana average
How Auburn Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Indiana. In-state it ranks #207 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,449 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 94
- IN departments
- 969
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy De Kalb County
County mix is mostly volunteer (6 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
6.45 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 31 roster).
Photo-finish peer: East Side Volunteer Fire Department, LA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 31 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IN department.