Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderCity of Madison Fire Department
Madison, WI · Dane County. City of Madison Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 11 stations and 318 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.
- 318
- Total personnel
- 11
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
City of Madison Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Wisconsin average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +1036%
- vs. Wisconsin average
- 11
- stations
- $451,394
- 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.
City of Madison Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Madison, WI (Dane County), with 11 stations and 318 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #106 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $451,394.
- National personnel rank #106 of 22,440
- WI personnel rank #1 of 695
- 3.46 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 27 other listed departments in Dane County
City of Madison Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
318 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 13010 · City of Madison Fire Department, WI 318 personnel · 11 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 318
- STA-MULTI 11 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #106
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ East Fork Fire Pr…
- FEMA-LIGHT $451K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: East Fork Fire Protection District, NV (+ 2 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 WI department.
- High Colleton County F…, SC 321
- Near East Fork Fire Pr…, NV 320
- Near Sunnyvale Departm…, CA 320
- City of Madison (this dept) 318
- Low Winston Salem Fir…, NC 312
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Madison, WI
- County
- Dane County
- FDID
- 13010
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | EMW-2012-FO-0221 | $177,299 |
| 2012 | EMW2011FH00750 | $-49,067 |
| 2011 | EMW-2011-FO-0923 | $327,876 |
| 2009 | EMW2008FF00863 | $-14 |
| - | EMW2016FH00674 | $-4,700 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Wisconsin average
How City of Madison Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Wisconsin. In-state it ranks #1 of 695 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #106 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 11
- State fire deaths/yr
- 54
- WI departments
- 961
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Dane County
County mix is mostly volunteer (23 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
3.46 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (11 stations / 318 roster).
Photo-finish peer: East Fork Fire Protection District, NV (+2 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 318 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every WI department.