Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderFairfield Fire Department
Fairfield, OH · Butler County. Fairfield Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 64 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.
- 64
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Fairfield Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Ohio average.
- Top 10%
- national personnel size
- +113%
- vs. Ohio average
- 3
- stations
- $268,850
- 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.
Fairfield Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Fairfield, OH (Butler County), with 3 stations and 64 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,302 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $268,850.
- National personnel rank #2,302 of 22,440
- OH personnel rank #94 of 1,108
- 4.69 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 22 other listed departments in Butler County
Fairfield Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
64 Top 10% higher than 90% 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 09011 · Fairfield Fire Department, OH 64 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 64
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,302
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lake Saint Louis…
- FEMA-LIGHT $269K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Lake Saint Louis Fire Protection District House 1, MO (+ 0 personnel)
Volunteer 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.
- Fairfield (this dept) 64
- High Port Orange Fire…, FL 64
- Near Lake Saint Louis…, MO 64
- Near Platte Canyon Fir…, CO 64
- Near Fenton Fire Distr…, MO 64
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Fairfield, OH
- County
- Butler County
- FDID
- 09011
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | EMW-2009-FO-0713 | $268,850 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Ohio average
How Fairfield Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #94 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,302 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 138
- OH departments
- 1,501
County roster fringe
Fairfield Fire Department is 5.8% of Butler County roster mass
The county lists 29 departments totaling 1,106 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 83% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.69 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 64 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Lake Saint Louis Fire Protection District House 1, MO (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 64 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.