Department profile
Career (Paid)Honolulu Fire Department
Honolulu, HI · Honolulu County. Honolulu Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 44 stations and 1,330 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 1,330
- Total personnel
- 44
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Honolulu Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Hawaii average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +2154%
- vs. Hawaii average
- 44
- 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.
Honolulu Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Honolulu, HI (Honolulu County), with 44 stations and 1,330 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #13 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #13 of 22,440
- HI personnel rank #1 of 5
- 3.31 stations per 100 personnel
- 1 other listed department in Honolulu County
Honolulu Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
1,330 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 52000 · Honolulu Fire Department, HI 1,330 personnel · 44 stations
PERS-METRO · STA-SYSTEM · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · ABOVE-PEER · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-METRO 1,330
- STA-SYSTEM 44 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #13
- ABOVE-PEER over Nashville
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Nashville Fire Department, TN ( -94 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 HI department.
- High San Antonio Fire…, TX 1,505
- Near Orange County Fir…, CA 1,435
- Honolulu (this dept) 1,330
- Near Nashville, TN 1,236
- Low Palm Beach County…, FL 1,218
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Honolulu, HI
- County
- Honolulu County
- FDID
- 52000
Staffing vs the Hawaii average
How Honolulu Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Hawaii. In-state it ranks #1 of 5 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #13 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 44
- State fire deaths/yr
- 6
- HI departments
- 43
County roster weight
Honolulu Fire Department carries 94.9% of Honolulu County HIFLD personnel
Among 3 listed departments (1,401 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 0% of the county count. County / state rollup.
3.31 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (44 stations / 1,330 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Nashville Fire Department, TN (-94 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nationwide career peers near 1,330 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every HI department.