Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Hammond Fire Department - Central Station

Hammond, LA · Tangipahoa County. Hammond Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department, 6 stations and 65 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.

65
Total personnel
6
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Hammond Fire Department - Central Station pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Louisiana average.

Top 10%
national personnel size
+150%
vs. Louisiana average
6
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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
9/100
Hammond Fire Department - Central Station

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 F
10.8 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
65 personnel · 6 stations

Hammond Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department serving Hammond, LA (Tangipahoa County), with 6 stations and 65 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,215 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,215 of 22,440
  • LA personnel rank #22 of 342
  • 9.23 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 12 other listed departments in Tangipahoa County

Hammond Fire Department - Central Station vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

65 Top 10% higher than 90% 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 53060 · Hammond Fire Department - Central Station, LA 65 personnel · 6 stations

PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 65
  • STA-MULTI 6 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #2,215
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Harrison Township…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Harrison Township Volunteer Fire Company, PA (+ 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 LA department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY CAREER
Location
Hammond, LA
FDID
53060

Staffing vs the Louisiana average

How Hammond Fire Department - Central Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Louisiana. In-state it ranks #22 of 342 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,215 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 150% above the state average
Stations
6
State fire deaths/yr
96
LA departments
786

County staffing outlier

Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Tangipahoa County

County mix is mostly volunteer (6 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.

9.23 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (6 stations / 65 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Harrison Township Volunteer Fire Company, PA (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

Nationwide career peers near 65 personnel

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