Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Dearborn Heights Fire Department

Dearborn Heights, MI · Wayne County. Dearborn Heights Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 55 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.

55
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Dearborn Heights Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Michigan average.

Top 14%
national personnel size
+150%
vs. Michigan average
2
stations
$7,536,541
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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
78/100
Dearborn Heights 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 B
27.5 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 A
$137,028 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
55 personnel · 2 stations

Dearborn Heights Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Dearborn Heights, MI (Wayne County), with 2 stations and 55 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,122 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $7,536,541.

  • National personnel rank #3,122 of 22,440
  • MI personnel rank #54 of 1,008
  • 3.64 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 44 other listed departments in Wayne County

Dearborn Heights Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

55 Top 14% higher than 86% 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 08206 · Dearborn Heights Fire Department, MI 55 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-MID 55
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #3,122
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Monroe Hose Compa…
  • FEMA-HEAVY $7.5M
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Monroe Hose 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 MI department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Dearborn Heights, MI
FDID
08206

FEMA Grant History

$7.5M
Cumulative funding (FY2011–2019)
10
Awards
Year Award Amount
2019 EMW-2019-FG-06975 $1,870,021
2018 EMW-2018-FR-00216 $2,218,136
2017 EMW-2017-FH-00241 $325,282.88
2016 EMW2014FH00271 $889,744
2015 EMW2014FR00092 $810,350
2015 EMW2014FO00441 $192,377
2014 EMW2013FH00358 $652,427
2014 EMW2013FO03334 $371,700
2011 EMW2011FV04537 $280,000
2011 EMW2010FH00514 $-73,497

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

Staffing vs the Michigan average

How Dearborn Heights Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Michigan. In-state it ranks #54 of 1,008 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,122 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 150% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
112
MI departments
1,274

County roster fringe

Dearborn Heights Fire Department is 3.4% of Wayne County roster mass

The county lists 59 departments totaling 1,641 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 100% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.64 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 55 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Monroe Hose Company, PA (+0 personnel).

Nearby Departments

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Nationwide career peers near 55 personnel

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