Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderEast Greenwich Fire District
East Greenwich, RI · Kent County. East Greenwich Fire District is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 42 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.
- 42
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
East Greenwich Fire District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount in line with the Rhode Island average.
- Top 24%
- national personnel size
- +11%
- vs. Rhode Island average
- 2
- stations
- $1,179,336
- 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.
East Greenwich Fire District is a Career (Paid) department serving East Greenwich, RI (Kent County), with 2 stations and 42 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,474 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,179,336.
- National personnel rank #5,474 of 22,440
- RI personnel rank #28 of 66
- 4.76 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 12 other listed departments in Kent County
East Greenwich Fire District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
42 Top 24% higher than 76% 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 00900 · East Greenwich Fire District, RI 42 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 42
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,474
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Dublin Volunteer
- FEMA-MID $1.2M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Dublin Volunteer Fire Department, NC (+ 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 RI department.
- East Greenwich Fi… (this dept) 42
- High Schuyler Heights…, NY 42
- Near Dublin Volunteer, NC 42
- Near Altamont, NY 42
- Near Ellerslie Volunte…, MD 42
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- East Greenwich, RI
- County
- Kent County
- FDID
- 00900
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | EMW-2023-FG-02085 | $264,999.18 |
| 2022 | EMW-2022-FG-00936 | $167,464.65 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FG-00067 | $284,654.62 |
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FG-04947 | $274,885 |
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FG-00686 | $187,333 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Rhode Island average
How East Greenwich Fire District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Rhode Island. In-state it ranks #28 of 66 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,474 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 9
- RI departments
- 111
County roster fringe
East Greenwich Fire District is 7.2% of Kent County roster mass
The county lists 18 departments totaling 582 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 72% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.76 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 42 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Dublin Volunteer Fire Department, NC (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 42 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every RI department.