Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderBelmont County Fire Department
Bellaire, OH · Belmont County. Belmont County Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 37 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.
- 37
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Belmont County Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Ohio average.
- Top 31%
- national personnel size
- +23%
- vs. Ohio 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.
Belmont County Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Bellaire, OH (Belmont County), with 2 stations and 37 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #6,934 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #6,934 of 22,440
- OH personnel rank #344 of 1,108
- 5.41 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 23 other listed departments in Belmont County
Belmont County Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
37 Top 31% higher than 69% 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 07235 · Belmont County Fire Department, OH 37 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 37
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #6,934
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Maitland Fire and…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Maitland Fire and Rescue, FL (+ 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.
- Belmont County (this dept) 37
- High Burgaw, NC 37
- Near Maitland Fire and…, FL 37
- Near Roxboro Fire and…, NC 37
- Near Narrows Volunteer, VA 37
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Bellaire, OH
- County
- Belmont County
- FDID
- 07235
Staffing vs the Ohio average
How Belmont County Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #344 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #6,934 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
Belmont County Fire Department is 4.7% of Belmont County roster mass
The county lists 26 departments totaling 791 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 88% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.41 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 37 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Maitland Fire and Rescue, FL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 37 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.