Department profile
Career (Paid)Daytona Beach Fire Department
Daytona Beach, FL · Volusia County. Daytona Beach Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 6 stations and 119 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 119
- Total personnel
- 6
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Daytona Beach Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Florida average.
- Top 3%
- national personnel size
- +325%
- vs. Florida average
- 6
- stations
- $378,000
- 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.
Daytona Beach Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Daytona Beach, FL (Volusia County), with 6 stations and 119 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #686 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $378,000.
- National personnel rank #686 of 22,440
- FL personnel rank #38 of 352
- 5.04 stations per 100 personnel
- 16 other listed departments in Volusia County
Daytona Beach Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
119 Top 3% higher than 97% 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 08072 · Daytona Beach Fire Department, FL 119 personnel · 6 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 119
- STA-MULTI 6 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #686
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Colchester Haywar…
- FEMA-LIGHT $378K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Colchester Hayward Volunteer Fire Company, CT (+ 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 FL department.
- Daytona Beach (this dept) 119
- High East Providence, RI 119
- Near Colchester Haywar…, CT 119
- Near City of East Oran…, NJ 119
- Near Eureka Fire Prote…, MO 119
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Daytona Beach, FL
- County
- Volusia County
- FDID
- 08072
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | EMW2013FO03346 | $378,000 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Florida average
How Daytona Beach Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Florida. In-state it ranks #38 of 352 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #686 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 6
- State fire deaths/yr
- 206
- FL departments
- 758
County roster geometry
Volusia County HIFLD mix around Daytona Beach Fire Department
Volusia County: 22 departments, 513 personnel (1 volunteer / 10 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 59% of departments. County / state rollup.
5.04 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (6 stations / 119 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Colchester Hayward Volunteer Fire Company, CT (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 119 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every FL department.