Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderChesterfield Fire and Emergency Medical Services
Chester, VA · Chesterfield County. Chesterfield Fire and Emergency Medical Services is a Career (Paid) department, 17 stations and 533 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.
- 533
- Total personnel
- 17
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Chesterfield Fire and Emergency Medical Services pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Virginia average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +1515%
- vs. Virginia average
- 17
- stations
- $2,629,416
- 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.
Chesterfield Fire and Emergency Medical Services is a Career (Paid) department serving Chester, VA (Chesterfield County), with 17 stations and 533 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #51 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $2,629,416.
- National personnel rank #51 of 22,440
- VA personnel rank #2 of 414
- 3.19 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 4 other listed departments in Chesterfield County
Chesterfield Fire and Emergency Medical Services vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
533 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 04100 · Chesterfield Fire and Emergency Medical Services, VA 533 personnel · 17 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 533
- STA-MULTI 17 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #51
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ City of Long Beach
- FEMA-MID $2.6M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: City of Long Beach Fire Department, CA ( -12 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 VA department.
- High Ventura County Fi…, CA 554
- Near Raleigh, NC 549
- Chesterfield Fire… (this dept) 533
- Near City of Long Beach, CA 521
- Low Columbia, SC 520
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Chester, VA
- County
- Chesterfield County
- FDID
- 04100
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FG-04939 | $400,000 |
| 2022 | EMW-2022-FG-07729 | $313,880 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FG-05924 | $1,915,536.36 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Virginia average
How Chesterfield Fire and Emergency Medical Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in Virginia. In-state it ranks #2 of 414 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #51 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 17
- State fire deaths/yr
- 86
- VA departments
- 766
County roster weight
Chesterfield Fire and Emergency Medical Services carries 96.6% of Chesterfield County HIFLD personnel
Among 5 listed departments (552 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 0% of the county count. County / state rollup.
3.19 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (17 stations / 533 roster).
Photo-finish peer: City of Long Beach Fire Department, CA (-12 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 533 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every VA department.