Department profile
Career (Paid)Canton Fire Department
Canton, GA · Cherokee County. Canton Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 29 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 29
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Canton Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Georgia average.
- Top 49%
- national personnel size
- +71%
- vs. Georgia 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.
Canton Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Canton, GA (Cherokee County), with 2 stations and 29 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #10,966 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #10,966 of 22,440
- GA personnel rank #129 of 328
- 6.90 stations per 100 personnel
- 10 other listed departments in Cherokee County
Canton Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
29 Top 49% higher than 51% 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 02803 · Canton Fire Department, GA 29 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 29
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-MID #10,966
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Wet Mountain Fire…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Wet Mountain Fire Protection District, CO (+ 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 GA department.
- Canton (this dept) 29
- High Lawrenceburg, KY 29
- Near Wet Mountain Fire…, CO 29
- Near Healing Springs, NC 29
- Near Donaldsonville, LA 29
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Canton, GA
- County
- Cherokee County
- FDID
- 02803
Staffing vs the Georgia average
How Canton Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Georgia. In-state it ranks #129 of 328 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #10,966 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 128
- GA departments
- 868
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Cherokee County
County mix is mostly volunteer (4 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
6.90 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 29 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Wet Mountain Fire Protection District, CO (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 29 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every GA department.