Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderCambridge Fire Department
Cambridge, MA · Middlesex County. Cambridge Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 8 stations and 285 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.
- 285
- Total personnel
- 8
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Cambridge Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Massachusetts average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +714%
- vs. Massachusetts 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.
Cambridge Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Cambridge, MA (Middlesex County), with 8 stations and 285 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #128 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #128 of 22,440
- MA personnel rank #2 of 326
- 2.81 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 65 other listed departments in Middlesex County
Cambridge Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
285 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 17049 · Cambridge Fire Department, MA 285 personnel · 8 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 285
- STA-MULTI 8 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #128
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Savannah
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Savannah Fire Department, GA (+ 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 MA department.
- High Loudoun County De…, VA 287
- Near Waterbury, CT 286
- Cambridge (this dept) 285
- Near Savannah, GA 285
- Near Indian River Coun…, FL 285
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Cambridge, MA
- County
- Middlesex County
- FDID
- 17049
Staffing vs the Massachusetts average
How Cambridge Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Massachusetts. In-state it ranks #2 of 326 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #128 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 8
- State fire deaths/yr
- 51
- MA departments
- 568
County roster fringe
Cambridge Fire Department is 7.7% of Middlesex County roster mass
The county lists 95 departments totaling 3,724 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 99% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.81 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (8 stations / 285 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Savannah Fire Department, GA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 285 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MA department.