Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderGarfield Heights Fire Department
Garfield Heights, OH · Cuyahoga County. Garfield Heights Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 47 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.
- 47
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Garfield Heights Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Ohio average.
- Top 20%
- national personnel size
- +57%
- vs. Ohio average
- 2
- stations
- $380,036
- 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.
Garfield Heights Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Garfield Heights, OH (Cuyahoga County), with 2 stations and 47 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,443 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $380,036.
- National personnel rank #4,443 of 22,440
- OH personnel rank #191 of 1,108
- 4.26 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 52 other listed departments in Cuyahoga County
Garfield Heights Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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 18039 · Garfield Heights Fire Department, OH 47 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 47
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,443
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Fall Creek Area F…
- FEMA-LIGHT $380K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Fall Creek Area Fire District, WI (+ 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.
- Garfield Heights (this dept) 47
- High Fire Department o…, KY 47
- Near Fall Creek Area F…, WI 47
- Near Winchester Fire D…, MA 47
- Near York Fire and Res…, NE 47
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Garfield Heights, OH
- County
- Cuyahoga County
- FDID
- 18039
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | EMW-2018-FO-01729 | $198,960 |
| 2011 | EMW2010FH00754 | $-28,398 |
| 2010 | EMW-2010-FH-0075 | $209,474 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Ohio average
How Garfield Heights Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #191 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,443 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
Garfield Heights Fire Department is 1.5% of Cuyahoga County roster mass
The county lists 71 departments totaling 3,053 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 89% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.26 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 47 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Fall Creek Area Fire District, WI (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 47 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.