Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderGreensboro Fire Department
Greensboro, NC · Guilford County. Greensboro Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 21 stations and 459 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.
- 459
- Total personnel
- 21
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Greensboro Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the North Carolina average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +1665%
- vs. North Carolina average
- 21
- 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.
Greensboro Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Greensboro, NC (Guilford County), with 21 stations and 459 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #63 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #63 of 22,440
- NC personnel rank #3 of 932
- 4.58 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 23 other listed departments in Guilford County
Greensboro Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
459 Top 1% higher than 99%+ 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 04110 · Greensboro Fire Department, NC 459 personnel · 21 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-SYSTEM · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 459
- STA-SYSTEM 21 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #63
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Yonkers
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Yonkers Fire Department, NY (+ 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 Horry County Fire…, SC 464
- Greensboro (this dept) 459
- Near Yonkers, NY 459
- Near Tacoma, WA 455
- Low Minneapolis, MN 445
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Greensboro, NC
- County
- Guilford County
- FDID
- 04110
Staffing vs the North Carolina average
How Greensboro Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #3 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #63 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 21
- State fire deaths/yr
- 131
- NC departments
- 1,534
County roster weight
Greensboro Fire Department carries 30.2% of Guilford County HIFLD personnel
Among 32 listed departments (1,521 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 50% of the county count. County / state rollup.
4.58 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (21 stations / 459 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Yonkers Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 459 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NC department.