Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderDunedin Fire Rescue
Dunedin, FL · Pinellas County. Dunedin Fire Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 57 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.
- 57
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Dunedin Fire Rescue pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Florida average.
- Top 13%
- national personnel size
- +104%
- vs. Florida average
- 3
- stations
- $3,340,050
- 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.
Dunedin Fire Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving Dunedin, FL (Pinellas County), with 3 stations and 57 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,894 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $3,340,050.
- National personnel rank #2,894 of 22,440
- FL personnel rank #87 of 352
- 5.26 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 23 other listed departments in Pinellas County
Dunedin Fire Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
57 Top 13% higher than 87% 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 04072 · Dunedin Fire Rescue, FL 57 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 57
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,894
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Black Forest Fire…
- FEMA-MID $3.3M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Black Forest Fire and Rescue Protection District, CO (+ 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.
- Dunedin Fire Resc… (this dept) 57
- High Pacific Fire Prot…, MO 57
- Near Black Forest Fire…, CO 57
- Near Weldon, NC 57
- Near Bradford Volunteer, RI 57
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Dunedin, FL
- County
- Pinellas County
- FDID
- 04072
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | EMW-2023-FF-01794 | $3,117,348 |
| 2020 | EMW-2020-FG-16594 | $222,701.82 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Florida average
How Dunedin Fire Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Florida. In-state it ranks #87 of 352 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,894 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 206
- FL departments
- 758
County roster fringe
Dunedin Fire Rescue is 4.6% of Pinellas County roster mass
The county lists 31 departments totaling 1,231 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 84% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.26 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 57 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Black Forest Fire and Rescue Protection District, CO (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 57 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every FL department.