Department profile
Career (Paid)Englewood Area Fire Control District
Englewood, FL · Sarasota County. Englewood Area Fire Control District is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 46 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 46
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Englewood Area Fire Control District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Florida average.
- Top 20%
- national personnel size
- +64%
- vs. Florida average
- 4
- stations
- $1,076,881
- 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.
Englewood Area Fire Control District is a Career (Paid) department serving Englewood, FL (Sarasota County), with 4 stations and 46 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,591 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,076,881.
- National personnel rank #4,591 of 22,440
- FL personnel rank #104 of 352
- 8.70 stations per 100 personnel
- 6 other listed departments in Sarasota County
Englewood Area Fire Control District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
46 Top 20% higher than 80% 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 16012 · Englewood Area Fire Control District, FL 46 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 46
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #4,591
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Volvo-White Motor…
- FEMA-MID $1.1M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Volvo-White Motor Company Fire Brigade, VA (+ 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.
- Englewood Area Fi… (this dept) 46
- High East Concord, NY 46
- Near Volvo-White Motor…, VA 46
- Near North Amherst Fir…, NY 46
- Near Thorndale Volunte…, PA 46
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Englewood, FL
- County
- Sarasota County
- FDID
- 16012
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FG-05361 | $402,986.36 |
| 2017 | EMW2015FH00079 | $673,895 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Florida average
How Englewood Area Fire Control District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Florida. In-state it ranks #104 of 352 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,591 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 206
- FL departments
- 758
County roster geometry
Sarasota County HIFLD mix around Englewood Area Fire Control District
Sarasota County: 9 departments, 198 personnel (1 volunteer / 3 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 56% of departments. County / state rollup.
8.70 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 46 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Volvo-White Motor Company Fire Brigade, VA (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 46 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every FL department.