Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderBoca Raton Fire and Rescue
Boca Raton, FL · Palm Beach County. Boca Raton Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 8 stations and 162 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.
- 162
- Total personnel
- 8
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Boca Raton Fire and Rescue pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Florida average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +479%
- vs. Florida average
- 8
- 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.
Boca Raton Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving Boca Raton, FL (Palm Beach County), with 8 stations and 162 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #349 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #349 of 22,440
- FL personnel rank #24 of 352
- 4.94 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 15 other listed departments in Palm Beach County
Boca Raton Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
162 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 06142 · Boca Raton Fire and Rescue, FL 162 personnel · 8 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 162
- STA-MULTI 8 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #349
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Odessa Fire Depar…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Odessa Fire Department - Central Station, TX (+ 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 FL department.
- Boca Raton Fire a… (this dept) 162
- High Framingham, MA 162
- Near Odessa Fire Depar…, TX 162
- Near South Portland Fi…, ME 162
- Low Jones County, GA 161
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Boca Raton, FL
- County
- Palm Beach County
- FDID
- 06142
Staffing vs the Florida average
How Boca Raton Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Florida. In-state it ranks #24 of 352 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #349 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 8
- State fire deaths/yr
- 206
- FL departments
- 758
County roster fringe
Boca Raton Fire and Rescue is 6.7% of Palm Beach County roster mass
The county lists 25 departments totaling 2,408 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 96% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.94 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (8 stations / 162 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Odessa Fire Department - Central Station, TX (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 162 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every FL department.