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Blue Ash Fire Department - North Station

Blue Ash, OH · Hamilton County. Blue Ash Fire Department - North Station is a fire department, 2 stations and 36 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.

36
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Blue Ash Fire Department - North Station pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Ohio average.

Top 32%
national personnel size
+20%
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
32/100
Blue Ash Fire Department - North Station

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
18 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
36 personnel · 2 stations

Blue Ash Fire Department - North Station is a fire department serving Blue Ash, OH (Hamilton County), with 2 stations and 36 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,227 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #7,227 of 22,440
  • OH personnel rank #371 of 1,108
  • 5.56 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 46 other listed departments in Hamilton County

Blue Ash Fire Department - North Station vs. the national personnel distribution

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

36 Top 32% higher than 68% 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 31007 · Blue Ash Fire Department - North Station, OH 36 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 36
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #7,227
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Farley Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Farley Volunteer Fire Department, IA (+ 0 personnel)

Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.

Personnel neighbourhood

Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every OH department.

Department Profile

Type
Location
Blue Ash, OH
FDID
31007

Staffing vs the Ohio average

How Blue Ash Fire Department - North Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #371 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,227 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 20% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
138
OH departments
1,501

County roster fringe

Blue Ash Fire Department - North Station is 1.3% of Hamilton County roster mass

The county lists 55 departments totaling 2,781 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 93% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

5.56 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 36 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Farley Volunteer Fire Department, IA (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide departments near 36 personnel

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