Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderHigh Point Fire Department
High Point, NC · Guilford County. High Point Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 12 stations and 212 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.
- 212
- Total personnel
- 12
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
High Point Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the North Carolina average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +715%
- vs. North Carolina average
- 12
- stations
- $4,431,965
- 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.
High Point Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving High Point, NC (Guilford County), with 12 stations and 212 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #204 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $4,431,965.
- National personnel rank #204 of 22,440
- NC personnel rank #6 of 932
- 5.66 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 23 other listed departments in Guilford County
High Point Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
212 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 04130 · High Point Fire Department, NC 212 personnel · 12 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 212
- STA-MULTI 12 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #204
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ City of Charleston
- FEMA-MID $4.4M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: City of Charleston Fire Department, SC (+ 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 Point (this dept) 212
- High Brockton, MA 212
- Near City of Charleston, SC 212
- Near Edison Division o…, NJ 212
- Low Peoria Fire Depar…, IL 211
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- High Point, NC
- County
- Guilford County
- FDID
- 04130
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FF-01214 | $3,332,597.4 |
| 2015 | EMW2014FO05459 | $1,099,368 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the North Carolina average
How High Point Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #6 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #204 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 12
- State fire deaths/yr
- 131
- NC departments
- 1,534
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Guilford County
County mix is mostly volunteer (16 volunteer / 4 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
5.66 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (12 stations / 212 roster).
Photo-finish peer: City of Charleston Fire Department, SC (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 212 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NC department.