Department profile
Career (Paid)Hartford Fire Department - Central Station
Hartford, CT · Hartford County. Hartford Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department, 12 stations and 364 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 364
- Total personnel
- 12
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Hartford Fire Department - Central Station pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Connecticut average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +810%
- vs. Connecticut average
- 12
- 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.
Hartford Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department serving Hartford, CT (Hartford County), with 12 stations and 364 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #84 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #84 of 22,440
- CT personnel rank #2 of 203
- 3.30 stations per 100 personnel
- 41 other listed departments in Hartford County
Hartford Fire Department - Central Station vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
364 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 02140 · Hartford Fire Department - Central Station, CT 364 personnel · 12 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 364
- STA-MULTI 12 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #84
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Stockton
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Stockton Fire Department, CA (+ 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 CT department.
- High Salt Lake City, UT 366
- Hartford Fire Dep… (this dept) 364
- Near Stockton, CA 364
- Near Fresno County Fir…, CA 357
- Low Gary, IN 355
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Hartford, CT
- County
- Hartford County
- FDID
- 02140
Staffing vs the Connecticut average
How Hartford Fire Department - Central Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Connecticut. In-state it ranks #2 of 203 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #84 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 12
- State fire deaths/yr
- 34
- CT departments
- 418
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Hartford County
County mix is mostly volunteer (31 volunteer / 9 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
3.30 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (12 stations / 364 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Stockton Fire Department, CA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 364 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CT department.