Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderKent Fire Department
Kent, OH · Portage County. Kent Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 35 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.
- 35
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Kent Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Ohio average.
- Top 35%
- national personnel size
- +17%
- vs. Ohio average
- 2
- 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.
Kent Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Kent, OH (Portage County), with 2 stations and 35 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,879 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #7,879 of 22,440
- OH personnel rank #423 of 1,108
- 5.71 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 20 other listed departments in Portage County
Kent Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
35 Top 35% higher than 65% 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 67015 · Kent Fire Department, OH 35 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 35
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #7,879
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ New Salem Fire Co…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: New Salem Fire Company, PA (+ 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 OH department.
- Kent (this dept) 35
- High Summit Fire Distr…, WI 35
- Near New Salem Fire Co…, PA 35
- Near Thomasville Fire…, PA 35
- Near Butler Volunteer…, WI 35
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Kent, OH
- County
- Portage County
- FDID
- 67015
Staffing vs the Ohio average
How Kent Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #423 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,879 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
Kent Fire Department is 5.7% of Portage County roster mass
The county lists 23 departments totaling 613 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 91% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.71 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 35 roster).
Photo-finish peer: New Salem Fire Company, PA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 35 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.