Department profile

Career (Paid)

Harrison Township Fire Department

Dayton, OH · Montgomery County. Harrison Township Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 62 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

62
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Not reported
EMS service

The verdict

Harrison Township Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Ohio average.

Top 11%
national personnel size
+107%
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
70/100
Harrison Township 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
31 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
62 personnel · 2 stations

Harrison Township Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Dayton, OH (Montgomery County), with 2 stations and 62 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,438 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,438 of 22,440
  • OH personnel rank #103 of 1,108
  • 3.23 stations per 100 personnel
  • 27 other listed departments in Montgomery County

Harrison Township Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

62 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 57107 · Harrison Township Fire Department, OH 62 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-UNK · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-MID 62
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-UNK EMS pending
  • RANK-UPPER #2,438
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Palm Coast
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Palm Coast Fire Department, FL (+ 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
Dayton, OH
FDID
57107

Staffing vs the Ohio average

How Harrison Township Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #103 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,438 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 107% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
138
OH departments
1,501

County roster fringe

Harrison Township Fire Department is 3.5% of Montgomery County roster mass

The county lists 41 departments totaling 1,753 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 88% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.23 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 62 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Palm Coast Fire Department, FL (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide career peers near 62 personnel

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