Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Eastlake Fire Department

Eastlake, OH · Lake County. Eastlake Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 30 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.

30
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Eastlake Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the Ohio average.

Top 45%
national personnel size
+0%
vs. Ohio average
1
station
$860,459
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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
72/100
Eastlake Fire Department

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.

Staffing capacity B
30 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment B
$28,682 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
30 personnel · 1 station

Eastlake Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Eastlake, OH (Lake County), with 1 station and 30 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #10,089 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $860,459.

  • National personnel rank #10,089 of 22,440
  • OH personnel rank #586 of 1,108
  • 3.33 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 17 other listed departments in Lake County

Eastlake Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

30 Top 45% higher than 55% 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 43001 · Eastlake Fire Department, OH 30 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 30
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #10,089
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ South Summit Fire…
  • FEMA-MID $860K
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: South Summit Fire Protection District - Oakley Station, UT (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Eastlake, OH
FDID
43001

FEMA Grant History

$860K
Cumulative funding (FY2015–2016)
2
Awards
Year Award Amount
2016 EMW2014FH00259 $640,173
2015 EMW2014FO02615 $220,286

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the Ohio average

How Eastlake Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #586 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #10,089 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 0% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
138
OH departments
1,501

County roster fringe

Eastlake Fire Department is 3.9% of Lake County roster mass

The county lists 23 departments totaling 761 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 100% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 30 roster).

Photo-finish peer: South Summit Fire Protection District - Oakley Station, UT (+0 personnel).

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Nationwide career peers near 30 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.