Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderBarberton Fire Department
Barberton, OH · Summit County. Barberton Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 46 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.
- 46
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Barberton Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Ohio average.
- Top 20%
- national personnel size
- +53%
- vs. Ohio average
- 2
- stations
- $1,763,684
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Barberton Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Barberton, OH (Summit County), with 2 stations and 46 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,549 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,763,684.
- National personnel rank #4,549 of 22,440
- OH personnel rank #196 of 1,108
- 4.35 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 28 other listed departments in Summit County
Barberton Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
46 Top 20% higher than 80% 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 77004 · Barberton Fire Department, OH 46 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 46
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,549
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Carter Fire Distr…
- FEMA-MID $1.8M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Carter Fire District, 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 OH department.
- Barberton (this dept) 46
- High Marguerite Volunt…, PA 46
- Near Carter Fire Distr…, IN 46
- Near Rock Creek, ID 46
- Near Minidoka County F…, ID 46
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Barberton, OH
- County
- Summit County
- FDID
- 77004
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FG-06187 | $207,052 |
| 2017 | EMW2016FO01041 | $181,271 |
| 2017 | EMW2016FV00807 | $178,182 |
| 2015 | EMW2014FV01265 | $345,455 |
| 2012 | EMW2011FR00166 | $851,724 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Ohio average
How Barberton Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #196 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,549 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 138
- OH departments
- 1,501
County roster fringe
Barberton Fire Department is 3.4% of Summit County roster mass
The county lists 40 departments totaling 1,364 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 90% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.35 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 46 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Carter Fire District, IN (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 46 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.