Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderCedar Hammock Fire Rescue
Bradenton, FL · Manatee County. Cedar Hammock Fire Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 47 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.
- 47
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Cedar Hammock Fire Rescue pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Florida average.
- Top 20%
- national personnel size
- +68%
- vs. Florida average
- 3
- 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.
Cedar Hammock Fire Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving Bradenton, FL (Manatee County), with 3 stations and 47 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,410 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,410 of 22,440
- FL personnel rank #99 of 352
- 6.38 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 12 other listed departments in Manatee County
Cedar Hammock Fire Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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 15072 · Cedar Hammock Fire Rescue, FL 47 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 47
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,410
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Westwood Fire Com…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Westwood Fire Company, PA (+ 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 FL department.
- Cedar Hammock Fir… (this dept) 47
- High Florham Park Volu…, NJ 47
- Near Westwood Fire Com…, PA 47
- Near Carlsbad, NM 47
- Near Morristown, NJ 47
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Bradenton, FL
- County
- Manatee County
- FDID
- 15072
Staffing vs the Florida average
How Cedar Hammock Fire Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Florida. In-state it ranks #99 of 352 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,410 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 206
- FL departments
- 758
County roster geometry
Manatee County HIFLD mix around Cedar Hammock Fire Rescue
Manatee County: 18 departments, 464 personnel (3 volunteer / 7 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 89% of departments. County / state rollup.
6.38 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 47 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Westwood Fire Company, PA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 47 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every FL department.