Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderBuffalo Fire Department
Buffalo, NY · Erie County. Buffalo Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 22 stations and 765 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.
- 765
- Total personnel
- 22
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Buffalo Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the New York average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +1721%
- vs. New York average
- 22
- 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.
Buffalo Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Buffalo, NY (Erie County), with 22 stations and 765 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #32 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #32 of 22,440
- NY personnel rank #1 of 1,368
- 2.88 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 99 other listed departments in Erie County
Buffalo Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
765 Top 1% higher than 99%+ 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 15100 · Buffalo Fire Department, NY 765 personnel · 22 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-SYSTEM · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 765
- STA-SYSTEM 22 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #32
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Tucson
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Tucson Fire Department, AZ (+ 5 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 NY department.
- High Kansas City Kansas, KS 799
- Near Fort Worth, TX 782
- Near Tucson, AZ 770
- Buffalo (this dept) 765
- Low Portland Fire and…, OR 736
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Buffalo, NY
- County
- Erie County
- FDID
- 15100
Staffing vs the New York average
How Buffalo Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #1 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #32 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 22
- State fire deaths/yr
- 150
- NY departments
- 2,253
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Erie County
County mix is mostly volunteer (81 volunteer / 6 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
2.88 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (22 stations / 765 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Tucson Fire Department, AZ (+5 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 765 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NY department.