Department profile

Career (Paid)

Findlay Fire Department

Findlay, OH · Hancock County. Findlay Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 76 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

76
Total personnel
4
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Findlay Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Ohio average.

Top 7%
national personnel size
+153%
vs. Ohio average
4
stations
$282,720
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
35/100
Findlay 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 D
19 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
76 personnel · 4 stations

Findlay Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Findlay, OH (Hancock County), with 4 stations and 76 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,619 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $282,720.

  • National personnel rank #1,619 of 22,440
  • OH personnel rank #59 of 1,108
  • 5.26 stations per 100 personnel
  • 11 other listed departments in Hancock County

Findlay Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

76 Top 7% higher than 93% 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 32007 · Findlay Fire Department, OH 76 personnel · 4 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 76
  • STA-FEW 4 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-TOP #1,619
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Rapids Volunteer…
  • FEMA-LIGHT $283K
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Rapids Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated, NY (+ 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
Findlay, OH
FDID
32007

FEMA Grant History

$0
Cumulative funding (FY2011–2017)
0
Awards
Year Award Amount
2017 EMW2016FO01121 $285,432
2011 EMW2010FH00875 $-2,712

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

Staffing vs the Ohio average

How Findlay Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #59 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,619 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 153% above the state average
Stations
4
State fire deaths/yr
138
OH departments
1,501

County staffing outlier

Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Hancock County

County mix is mostly volunteer (9 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.

5.26 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 76 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Rapids Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated, NY (+0 personnel).

Nationwide career peers near 76 personnel

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