Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderFitchburg Fire Department
Fitchburg, MA · Worcester County. Fitchburg Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 100 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.
- 100
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Fitchburg Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Massachusetts average.
- Top 4%
- national personnel size
- +186%
- vs. Massachusetts average
- 3
- stations
- $1,758,708
- 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.
Fitchburg Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Fitchburg, MA (Worcester County), with 3 stations and 100 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #937 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,758,708.
- National personnel rank #937 of 22,440
- MA personnel rank #27 of 326
- 3.00 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 71 other listed departments in Worcester County
Fitchburg Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
100 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 27097 · Fitchburg Fire Department, MA 100 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 100
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #937
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Butte Fire Protec…
- FEMA-MID $1.8M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Butte Fire Protection District, ND (+ 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 MA department.
- Fitchburg (this dept) 100
- High Rancho Cucamonga…, CA 100
- Near Butte Fire Protec…, ND 100
- Near Bayville Fire Com…, NY 100
- Near Inwood, NY 100
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Fitchburg, MA
- County
- Worcester County
- FDID
- 27097
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FG-00169 | $380,847.76 |
| 2018 | EMW2016FH00166 | $246,769 |
| 2018 | EMW-2018-FO-01107 | $235,636 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FV-01512 | $486,364 |
| 2015 | EMW2014FV01134 | $409,091 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Massachusetts average
How Fitchburg Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Massachusetts. In-state it ranks #27 of 326 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #937 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 51
- MA departments
- 568
County roster fringe
Fitchburg Fire Department is 3.6% of Worcester County roster mass
The county lists 94 departments totaling 2,783 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 64% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 100 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Butte Fire Protection District, ND (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 100 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MA department.