Department profile
OtherLafayette Fire Department
Lafayette, LA · Lafayette County. Lafayette Fire Department is a fire department and 223 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 223
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Lafayette Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Louisiana average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +758%
- vs. Louisiana average
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.
Lafayette Fire Department is a fire department serving Lafayette, LA (Lafayette County) and 223 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #188 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #188 of 22,440
- LA personnel rank #3 of 342
- 11 other listed departments in Lafayette County
Lafayette Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
223 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 28020 · Lafayette Fire Department, LA 223 personnel
PERS-LARGE · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-LARGE 223
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #188
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Albany
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Albany Fire Department, GA (+ 0 personnel)
Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every LA department.
- High Haverstraw Fire D…, NY 225
- Near Monroe County Fir…, FL 224
- Near Fall River, MA 224
- Lafayette (this dept) 223
- Near Albany, GA 223
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Lafayette, LA
- County
- Lafayette County
- FDID
- 28020
Staffing vs the Louisiana average
How Lafayette Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Louisiana. In-state it ranks #3 of 342 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #188 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 96
- LA departments
- 786
County roster weight
Lafayette Fire Department carries 49.0% of Lafayette County HIFLD personnel
Among 15 listed departments (455 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 40% of the county count. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Albany Fire Department, GA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 223 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every LA department.