Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Cuyahoga Falls Fire Department

Cuyahoga Falls, OH · Summit County. Cuyahoga Falls Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 89 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.

89
Total personnel
5
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Cuyahoga Falls Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Ohio average.

Top 5%
national personnel size
+197%
vs. Ohio average
5
stations
$1,957,784
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
31/100
Cuyahoga Falls Fire Department

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.

Staffing capacity D
17.8 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
89 personnel · 5 stations

Cuyahoga Falls Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Cuyahoga Falls, OH (Summit County), with 5 stations and 89 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,193 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,957,784.

  • National personnel rank #1,193 of 22,440
  • OH personnel rank #39 of 1,108
  • 5.62 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 28 other listed departments in Summit County

Cuyahoga Falls Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

89 Top 5% higher than 95% 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 77011 · Cuyahoga Falls Fire Department, OH 89 personnel · 5 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 89
  • STA-FEW 5 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,193
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Town of Mamaroneck
  • FEMA-MID $2.0M
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Town of Mamaroneck 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.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Cuyahoga Falls, OH
FDID
77011

FEMA Grant History

$0
Cumulative funding (FY2011)
0
Awards
Year Award Amount
2011 EMW-2011-FH-0067 $1,957,784

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the Ohio average

How Cuyahoga Falls Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #39 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,193 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 197% above the state average
Stations
5
State fire deaths/yr
138
OH departments
1,501

County roster fringe

Cuyahoga Falls Fire Department is 6.5% of Summit County roster mass

The county lists 40 departments totaling 1,364 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 90% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

5.62 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 89 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Town of Mamaroneck Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).

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Nationwide career peers near 89 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.