Department profile
Career (Paid)Key West Fire Department Central Station
Key West, FL · Monroe County. Key West Fire Department Central Station is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 73 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 73
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Key West Fire Department Central Station pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Florida average.
- Top 8%
- national personnel size
- +161%
- vs. Florida average
- 3
- 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.
Key West Fire Department Central Station is a Career (Paid) department serving Key West, FL (Monroe County), with 3 stations and 73 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,762 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,762 of 22,440
- FL personnel rank #65 of 352
- 4.11 stations per 100 personnel
- 14 other listed departments in Monroe County
Key West Fire Department Central Station vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
73 Top 8% higher than 92% 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 38012 · Key West Fire Department Central Station, FL 73 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 73
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #1,762
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ City of Poway
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: City of Poway Fire Department, CA (+ 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 FL department.
- Key West Fire Dep… (this dept) 73
- High Dagsboro Volunteer, DE 73
- Near City of Poway, CA 73
- Near El Cajon, CA 73
- Near Cooperstown Fire…, NY 73
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Key West, FL
- County
- Monroe County
- FDID
- 38012
Staffing vs the Florida average
How Key West Fire Department Central Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Florida. In-state it ranks #65 of 352 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,762 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 206
- FL departments
- 758
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Monroe County
County mix is mostly volunteer (6 volunteer / 3 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
4.11 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 73 roster).
Photo-finish peer: City of Poway Fire Department, CA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 73 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every FL department.