Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderCape Canaveral Volunteer Fire Department
Cape Canaveral, FL · Brevard County. Cape Canaveral Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 58 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.
- 58
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Cape Canaveral Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Florida average.
- Top 13%
- national personnel size
- +107%
- vs. Florida 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.
Cape Canaveral Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Cape Canaveral, FL (Brevard County), with 2 stations and 58 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,814 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,814 of 22,440
- FL personnel rank #85 of 352
- 3.45 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 20 other listed departments in Brevard County
Cape Canaveral Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
58 Top 13% higher than 87% 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 19011 · Cape Canaveral Volunteer Fire Department, FL 58 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 58
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,814
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Center Township E…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Center Township Emergency Services, IN (+ 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.
- Cape Canaveral Vo… (this dept) 58
- High Pompton Lakes Vol…, NJ 58
- Near Center Township E…, IN 58
- Near Reading, MA 58
- Near Walls, MS 58
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Cape Canaveral, FL
- County
- Brevard County
- FDID
- 19011
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | EMW2007FF00077 | $-2,299 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Florida average
How Cape Canaveral Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Florida. In-state it ranks #85 of 352 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,814 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 206
- FL departments
- 758
County roster fringe
Cape Canaveral Volunteer Fire Department is 7.8% of Brevard County roster mass
The county lists 26 departments totaling 743 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 69% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.45 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 58 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Center Township Emergency Services, IN (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 58 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every FL department.