Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderCanton Township Fire Department
Canton, OH · Stark County. Canton Township Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 5 stations and 74 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.
- 74
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Canton Township Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Ohio average.
- Top 8%
- national personnel size
- +147%
- vs. Ohio average
- 5
- stations
- $2,281,706
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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 Township Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Canton, OH (Stark County), with 5 stations and 74 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,711 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $2,281,706.
- National personnel rank #1,711 of 22,440
- OH personnel rank #64 of 1,108
- 6.76 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 31 other listed departments in Stark County
Canton Township Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
74 Top 8% higher than 92% 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 76135 · Canton Township Fire Department, OH 74 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 74
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,711
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hartford Fire and…
- FEMA-MID $2.3M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Hartford Fire and Rescue, WI (+ 0 personnel)
Volunteer 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.
- Canton Township (this dept) 74
- High Goffstown, NH 74
- Near Hartford Fire and…, WI 74
- Near Monticello Joint…, NY 74
- Near Saint George, UT 74
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Canton, OH
- County
- Stark County
- FDID
- 76135
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FG-00003 | $329,156.34 |
| 2017 | EMW2016FO00494 | $280,993 |
| 2016 | EMW2015FO01071 | $273,514 |
| 2015 | EMW2014FV01021 | $676,130 |
| 2011 | EMW-2011-FO-0174 | $721,913 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Ohio average
How Canton Township Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #64 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,711 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 138
- OH departments
- 1,501
County roster fringe
Canton Township Fire Department is 6.0% of Stark County roster mass
The county lists 43 departments totaling 1,237 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 72% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
6.76 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 74 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Hartford Fire and Rescue, WI (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 74 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.