Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderCity of Oswego Fire Department - East Side Station
Oswego, NY · Oswego County. City of Oswego Fire Department - East Side Station is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 67 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.
- 67
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
City of Oswego Fire Department - East Side Station pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount well above the New York average.
- Top 9%
- national personnel size
- +60%
- vs. New York 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.
City of Oswego Fire Department - East Side Station is a Career (Paid) department serving Oswego, NY (Oswego County), with 2 stations and 67 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,084 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,084 of 22,440
- NY personnel rank #348 of 1,368
- 2.99 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 28 other listed departments in Oswego County
City of Oswego Fire Department - East Side Station vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
67 Top 9% higher than 91% 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 38018 · City of Oswego Fire Department - East Side Station, NY 67 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 67
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #2,084
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Kinzer Fire Compa…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Kinzer 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 NY department.
- City of Oswego Fi… (this dept) 67
- High Anderson Township…, OH 67
- Near Kinzer Fire Compa…, PA 67
- Near Morristown, TN 67
- Near Watsonville, CA 67
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Oswego, NY
- County
- Oswego County
- FDID
- 38018
Staffing vs the New York average
How City of Oswego Fire Department - East Side Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #348 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,084 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 150
- NY departments
- 2,253
County roster fringe
City of Oswego Fire Department - East Side Station is 5.8% of Oswego County roster mass
The county lists 34 departments totaling 1,156 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 97% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.99 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 67 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Kinzer Fire Company, PA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 67 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NY department.