Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderBowling Green Division of Fire
Bowling Green, OH · Wood County. Bowling Green Division of Fire is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 60 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.
- 60
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Bowling Green Division of Fire pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Ohio average.
- Top 11%
- national personnel size
- +100%
- 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.
Bowling Green Division of Fire is a Career (Paid) department serving Bowling Green, OH (Wood County), with 2 stations and 60 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,563 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,563 of 22,440
- OH personnel rank #112 of 1,108
- 3.33 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 25 other listed departments in Wood County
Bowling Green Division of Fire vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
60 Top 11% higher than 89% 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 87005 · Bowling Green Division of Fire, OH 60 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 60
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,563
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Limestone Volunte…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Limestone Volunteer Fire Department, TN (+ 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.
- Bowling Green Div… (this dept) 60
- High Londonderry Fire…, NH 60
- Near Limestone Volunte…, TN 60
- Near Staunton Fire and…, VA 60
- Near Sevier County Vol…, TN 60
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Bowling Green, OH
- County
- Wood County
- FDID
- 87005
Staffing vs the Ohio average
How Bowling Green Division of Fire's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #112 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,563 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
Bowling Green Division of Fire is 7.5% of Wood County roster mass
The county lists 29 departments totaling 800 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 62% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 60 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Limestone Volunteer Fire Department, TN (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 60 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.