Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderCanton Fire Department
Canton, OH · Stark County. Canton Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 9 stations and 173 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.
- 173
- Total personnel
- 9
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Canton Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Ohio average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +477%
- vs. Ohio average
- 9
- 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, OH (Stark County), with 9 stations and 173 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #308 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #308 of 22,440
- OH personnel rank #8 of 1,108
- 5.20 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 31 other listed departments in Stark County
Canton Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
173 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 76009 · Canton Fire Department, OH 173 personnel · 9 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 173
- STA-MULTI 9 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #308
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hudson
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Hudson Fire Department, NY (+ 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.
- High Gulfport Fire Dep…, MS 174
- Canton (this dept) 173
- Near Hudson, NY 173
- Near Fairfield Fire an…, PA 173
- Low Madison County, TN 172
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Canton, OH
- County
- Stark County
- FDID
- 76009
Staffing vs the Ohio average
How Canton Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #8 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #308 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 9
- State fire deaths/yr
- 138
- OH departments
- 1,501
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Stark County
County mix is mostly volunteer (24 volunteer / 4 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
5.20 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (9 stations / 173 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Hudson Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 173 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.