Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Auburn Fire Department

Auburn, NY · Cayuga County. Auburn Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 74 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.

74
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Auburn Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount well above the New York average.

Top 8%
national personnel size
+76%
vs. New York 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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
53/100
Auburn Fire Department

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.

Staffing capacity C
24.7 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
74 personnel · 3 stations

Auburn Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Auburn, NY (Cayuga County), with 3 stations and 74 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,709 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #1,709 of 22,440
  • NY personnel rank #289 of 1,368
  • 4.05 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 29 other listed departments in Cayuga County

Auburn Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

74 Top 8% higher than 92% 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 06001 · Auburn Fire Department, NY 74 personnel · 3 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 74
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,709
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Belleville
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Belleville Fire Department, NJ (+ 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 NY department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Auburn, NY
FDID
06001

Staffing vs the New York average

How Auburn Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #289 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,709 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 76% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
150
NY departments
2,253

County roster fringe

Auburn Fire Department is 8.2% of Cayuga County roster mass

The county lists 33 departments totaling 907 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 94% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

4.05 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 74 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Belleville Fire Department, NJ (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

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Cato Volunteer Fire Department
Cato · volunteer
Cayuga Volunteer Fire and Rescue
Cayuga · volunteer
Conquest Fire Company
Port Byron · volunteer
Fair Haven Fire Department
Sterling · other
Fleming Volunteer Fire Department
Auburn · volunteer
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Nationwide career peers near 74 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NY department.