Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderDearborn 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.
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.
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.
- Dearborn Heights (this dept) 55
- High William Penn Fire…, PA 55
- Near Monroe Hose Compa…, PA 55
- Near Saint Robert City…, MO 55
- Near Linn Fire Protect…, MO 55
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Dearborn Heights, MI
- County
- Wayne County
- FDID
- 08206
FEMA Grant History
| 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.
- 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
Nationwide career peers near 55 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MI department.