Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderHeath Fire Department
Heath, OH · Licking County. Heath Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 64 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.
- 64
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Heath Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Ohio average.
- Top 10%
- national personnel size
- +113%
- vs. Ohio average
- 2
- stations
- $610,338
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Heath Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Heath, OH (Licking County), with 2 stations and 64 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,308 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $610,338.
- National personnel rank #2,308 of 22,440
- OH personnel rank #95 of 1,108
- 3.13 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 19 other listed departments in Licking County
Heath Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
64 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 45015 · Heath Fire Department, OH 64 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 64
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,308
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hermitage Fire De…
- FEMA-MID $610K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Hermitage Fire Department Incorporated, PA (+ 0 personnel)
Volunteer 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.
- Heath (this dept) 64
- High Vincennes Township, IN 64
- Near Hermitage Fire De…, PA 64
- Near Rockledge Fire Co…, PA 64
- Near LA Place Volunteer, LA 64
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Heath, OH
- County
- Licking County
- FDID
- 45015
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FG-01510 | $205,238.09 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FH-00334 | $405,100.07 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Ohio average
How Heath Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #95 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,308 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 138
- OH departments
- 1,501
County roster fringe
Heath Fire Department is 8.9% of Licking County roster mass
The county lists 23 departments totaling 722 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 91% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.13 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 64 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Hermitage Fire Department Incorporated, PA (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 64 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.