Department profile
Career (Paid)Lake Charles Fire Department
Lake Charles, LA · Calcasieu County. Lake Charles Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 8 stations and 126 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 126
- Total personnel
- 8
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Lake Charles Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Louisiana average.
- Top 3%
- national personnel size
- +385%
- vs. Louisiana average
- 8
- 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.
Lake Charles Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Lake Charles, LA (Calcasieu County), with 8 stations and 126 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #597 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #597 of 22,440
- LA personnel rank #7 of 342
- 6.35 stations per 100 personnel
- 12 other listed departments in Calcasieu County
Lake Charles Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
126 Top 3% higher than 97% 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 10020 · Lake Charles Fire Department, LA 126 personnel · 8 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 126
- STA-MULTI 8 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #597
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Central Yavapai F…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Central Yavapai Fire District, AZ (+ 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 LA department.
- Lake Charles (this dept) 126
- High Littleton Fire Re…, CO 126
- Near Central Yavapai F…, AZ 126
- Near Swansea, MA 126
- Near Parker Fire Prote…, CO 126
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Lake Charles, LA
- County
- Calcasieu County
- FDID
- 10020
Staffing vs the Louisiana average
How Lake Charles Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Louisiana. In-state it ranks #7 of 342 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #597 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 8
- State fire deaths/yr
- 96
- LA departments
- 786
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Calcasieu County
County mix is mostly volunteer (7 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
6.35 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (8 stations / 126 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Central Yavapai Fire District, AZ (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 126 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every LA department.