Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Berlin Township Fire Department

Delaware, OH · Delaware County. Berlin Township Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 16 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.

16
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Berlin Township Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Ohio average.

13th pct.
national personnel size
-47%
vs. Ohio average
1
station

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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
25/100
Berlin Township 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 D
16 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
16 personnel · 1 station

Berlin Township Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Delaware, OH (Delaware County), with 1 station and 16 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #19,441 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #19,441 of 22,440
  • OH personnel rank #1,036 of 1,108
  • 6.25 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 13 other listed departments in Delaware County

Berlin Township Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

16 Top 87% higher than 13% 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 21103 · Berlin Township Fire Department, OH 16 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 16
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #19,441
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Asbury
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Asbury Fire Department, NJ (+ 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 OH department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Delaware, OH
FDID
21103

Staffing vs the Ohio average

How Berlin Township Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #1,036 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #19,441 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 47% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
138
OH departments
1,501

County roster fringe

Berlin Township Fire Department is 3.5% of Delaware County roster mass

The county lists 16 departments totaling 452 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 94% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.25 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 16 roster).

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

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 16 personnel

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