Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderDelaware City Fire Department
Delaware, OH · Delaware County. Delaware City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 45 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.
- 45
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Delaware City Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Ohio average.
- Top 21%
- national personnel size
- +50%
- vs. Ohio 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.
Delaware City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Delaware, OH (Delaware County), with 2 stations and 45 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,794 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,794 of 22,440
- OH personnel rank #213 of 1,108
- 4.44 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 13 other listed departments in Delaware County
Delaware City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
45 Top 21% higher than 79% 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 21003 · Delaware City Fire Department, OH 45 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 45
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,794
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Inlet Volunteer E…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Inlet Volunteer Emergency Services Doing Business AS Inlet Volunteer Hose Company, 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.
- Delaware City (this dept) 45
- High Washington Borough, NJ 45
- Near Inlet Volunteer E…, NY 45
- Near South Middleton T…, PA 45
- Near Harmony Township…, NJ 45
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Delaware, OH
- County
- Delaware County
- FDID
- 21003
Staffing vs the Ohio average
How Delaware City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #213 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,794 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 138
- OH departments
- 1,501
County roster fringe
Delaware City Fire Department is 10.0% of Delaware County roster mass
The county lists 16 departments totaling 452 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 94% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.44 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 45 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Inlet Volunteer Emergency Services Doing Business AS Inlet Volunteer Hose Company, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 45 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.