Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderGastonia City Fire Department
Gastonia, NC · Gaston County. Gastonia City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 8 stations and 141 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.
- 141
- Total personnel
- 8
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Gastonia City Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the North Carolina average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +442%
- vs. North Carolina average
- 8
- 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.
Gastonia City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Gastonia, NC (Gaston County), with 8 stations and 141 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #470 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #470 of 22,440
- NC personnel rank #13 of 932
- 5.67 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 24 other listed departments in Gaston County
Gastonia City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
141 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 03612 · Gastonia City Fire Department, NC 141 personnel · 8 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 141
- STA-MULTI 8 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #470
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ New Britain
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: New Britain Fire Department, CT (+ 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 NC department.
- High Winsted, CT 142
- Gastonia City (this dept) 141
- Near New Britain, CT 141
- Near Guilford, CT 141
- Near Los Alamos, NM 141
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Gastonia, NC
- County
- Gaston County
- FDID
- 03612
Staffing vs the North Carolina average
How Gastonia City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #13 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #470 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 8
- State fire deaths/yr
- 131
- NC departments
- 1,534
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Gaston County
County mix is mostly volunteer (19 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
5.67 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (8 stations / 141 roster).
Photo-finish peer: New Britain Fire Department, CT (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 141 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NC department.