Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderForest Park Fire Department
Forest Park, OH · Hamilton County. Forest Park Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 61 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.
- 61
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Forest Park Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Ohio average.
- Top 11%
- national personnel size
- +103%
- vs. Ohio average
- 2
- stations
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.
Forest Park Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Forest Park, OH (Hamilton County), with 2 stations and 61 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,497 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,497 of 22,440
- OH personnel rank #106 of 1,108
- 3.28 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 46 other listed departments in Hamilton County
Forest Park Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
61 Top 11% higher than 89% 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 31037 · Forest Park Fire Department, OH 61 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 61
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,497
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Placer County
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Placer County Fire Department, CA (+ 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.
- Forest Park (this dept) 61
- High Santee, CA 61
- Near Placer County, CA 61
- Near Smithfield, RI 61
- Near Egypt Fire Depart…, NY 61
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Forest Park, OH
- County
- Hamilton County
- FDID
- 31037
Staffing vs the Ohio average
How Forest Park Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #106 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,497 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 138
- OH departments
- 1,501
County roster fringe
Forest Park Fire Department is 2.2% of Hamilton County roster mass
The county lists 55 departments totaling 2,781 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 93% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.28 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 61 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Placer County Fire Department, CA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 61 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.