Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderCity of Youngstown Fire Department
Youngstown, OH · Mahoning County. City of Youngstown Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 8 stations and 153 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.
- 153
- Total personnel
- 8
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
City of Youngstown Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Ohio average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +410%
- vs. Ohio average
- 8
- stations
- $1,155,070
- 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 Youngstown Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Youngstown, OH (Mahoning County), with 8 stations and 153 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #389 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,155,070.
- National personnel rank #389 of 22,440
- OH personnel rank #11 of 1,108
- 5.23 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 20 other listed departments in Mahoning County
City of Youngstown Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
153 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 50043 · City of Youngstown Fire Department, OH 153 personnel · 8 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 153
- STA-MULTI 8 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #389
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Mount Vernon
- FEMA-MID $1.2M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Mount Vernon Fire Department, NY (+ 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 OH department.
- City of Youngstown (this dept) 153
- High Rome, GA 153
- Near Mount Vernon, NY 153
- Near Geneva Fire Depar…, NY 153
- Near Kenosha, WI 153
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Youngstown, OH
- County
- Mahoning County
- FDID
- 50043
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | EMW2016FH00328 | $396,693 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FV-00253 | $386,364 |
| 2016 | EMW2015FO00295 | $372,013 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Ohio average
How City of Youngstown Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #11 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #389 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 8
- State fire deaths/yr
- 138
- OH departments
- 1,501
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Mahoning County
County mix is mostly volunteer (15 volunteer / 3 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
5.23 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (8 stations / 153 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Mount Vernon Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 153 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.