Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Forest 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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
68/100
Forest Park 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 B
30.5 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
61 personnel · 2 stations

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.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Forest Park, OH
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.

▲ 103% above the state average
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).

Nationwide career peers near 61 personnel

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