Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderCantonment Volunteer Fire Department
Cantonment, FL · Escambia County. Cantonment Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department and 32 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.
- 32
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Cantonment Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the Florida average.
- Top 40%
- national personnel size
- +14%
- vs. Florida average
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.
Cantonment Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Cantonment, FL (Escambia County) and 32 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,985 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #8,985 of 22,440
- FL personnel rank #158 of 352
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 18 other listed departments in Escambia County
Cantonment Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
32 Top 40% higher than 60% 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 09021 · Cantonment Volunteer Fire Department, FL 32 personnel
PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 32
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-MID #8,985
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Meeks Bay Fire Pr…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Meeks Bay Fire Protection District, CA (+ 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 FL department.
- Cantonment Volunt… (this dept) 32
- High Lake Toxaway Fire…, NC 32
- Near Meeks Bay Fire Pr…, CA 32
- Near Mustang, OK 32
- Near Hopkins Rural Fir…, NC 32
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Cantonment, FL
- County
- Escambia County
- FDID
- 09021
Staffing vs the Florida average
How Cantonment Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Florida. In-state it ranks #158 of 352 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,985 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 206
- FL departments
- 758
County roster fringe
Cantonment Volunteer Fire Department is 7.0% of Escambia County roster mass
The county lists 23 departments totaling 456 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 65% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Meeks Bay Fire Protection District, CA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 32 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every FL department.