Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department

Jacksonville, FL · Duval County. Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 6 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.

6
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Florida average.

0th pct.
national personnel size
-79%
vs. Florida average
1
station

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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
5/100
Jacksonville Fire and Rescue 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 F
6 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
6 personnel · 1 station

Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department is a Volunteer department serving Jacksonville, FL (Duval County), with 1 station and 6 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,334 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #22,334 of 22,440
  • FL personnel rank #350 of 352
  • 16.67 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 5 other listed departments in Duval County

Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

6 Top 100% in the bottom 1% of 22,440 departments

Listable U.S. fire departments, banded by total personnel

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more departments. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source HIFLD fire-station registry · 2026-09-06

Dispatch plate

Sheet 02501 · Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department, FL 6 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MICRO 6
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #22,334
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cotter-Gassville…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Cotter-Gassville Rural Volunteer Fire District, AR (+ 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 FL department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Jacksonville, FL
FDID
02501

Staffing vs the Florida average

How Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Florida. In-state it ranks #350 of 352 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,334 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 79% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
206
FL departments
758

County roster fringe

Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department is 5.6% of Duval County roster mass

The county lists 8 departments totaling 107 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 63% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

16.67 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 6 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Cotter-Gassville Rural Volunteer Fire District, AR (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 6 personnel

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