Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderDedham Fire Department
Dedham, MA · Norfolk County. Dedham Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 63 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.
- 63
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Dedham Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Massachusetts average.
- Top 11%
- national personnel size
- +80%
- vs. Massachusetts average
- 2
- stations
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.
Dedham Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Dedham, MA (Norfolk County), with 2 stations and 63 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,361 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,361 of 22,440
- MA personnel rank #62 of 326
- 3.17 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 30 other listed departments in Norfolk County
Dedham Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
63 Top 11% higher than 89% 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 21073 · Dedham Fire Department, MA 63 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 63
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,361
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Dekalb County
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Dekalb County Fire Department, TN (+ 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 MA department.
- Dedham (this dept) 63
- High North Fort Myers…, FL 63
- Near Dekalb County, TN 63
- Near Old Forte, SC 63
- Near Cleveland Hopkins…, OH 63
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Dedham, MA
- County
- Norfolk County
- FDID
- 21073
Staffing vs the Massachusetts average
How Dedham Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Massachusetts. In-state it ranks #62 of 326 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,361 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 51
- MA departments
- 568
County roster fringe
Dedham Fire Department is 3.9% of Norfolk County roster mass
The county lists 44 departments totaling 1,632 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 91% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.17 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 63 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Dekalb County Fire Department, TN (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 63 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MA department.