Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderCity of Watertown Fire Department
Watertown, NY · Jefferson County. City of Watertown Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 83 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.
- 83
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
City of Watertown Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount well above the New York average.
- Top 6%
- national personnel size
- +98%
- vs. New York average
- 3
- stations
- $1,410,994
- 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 Watertown Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Watertown, NY (Jefferson County), with 3 stations and 83 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,351 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,410,994.
- National personnel rank #1,351 of 22,440
- NY personnel rank #229 of 1,368
- 3.61 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 48 other listed departments in Jefferson County
City of Watertown Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
83 Top 6% higher than 94% 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 23047 · City of Watertown Fire Department, NY 83 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 83
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,351
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Violet Township
- FEMA-MID $1.4M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Violet Township Fire Department, OH (+ 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 Watertown (this dept) 83
- High City of Vernon, CA 83
- Near Violet Township, OH 83
- Near Enid, OK 83
- Near Riviera Beach Vol…, MD 83
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Watertown, NY
- County
- Jefferson County
- FDID
- 23047
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | EMW-2023-FG-07497 | $181,363.63 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FG-07215 | $181,817.27 |
| 2020 | EMW-2020-FG-17440 | $210,942.55 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FH-00193 | $539,255.8 |
| 2016 | EMW2015FO00104 | $297,615 |
| 2016 | EMW2014FH00195 | $0 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the New York average
How City of Watertown Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #229 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,351 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 150
- NY departments
- 2,253
County roster fringe
City of Watertown Fire Department is 5.6% of Jefferson County roster mass
The county lists 56 departments totaling 1,484 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 70% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.61 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 83 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Violet Township Fire Department, OH (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 83 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NY department.