Department profile
Career (Paid)Lake Oswego Fire Department
Lake Oswego, OR · Clackamas County. Lake Oswego Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 52 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 52
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Lake Oswego Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Oregon average.
- Top 16%
- national personnel size
- +108%
- vs. Oregon average
- 4
- stations
- $221,616
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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 Oswego Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Lake Oswego, OR (Clackamas County), with 4 stations and 52 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,599 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $221,616.
- National personnel rank #3,599 of 22,440
- OR personnel rank #39 of 237
- 7.69 stations per 100 personnel
- 3 other listed departments in Clackamas County
Lake Oswego Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
52 Top 16% higher than 84% 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 00193 · Lake Oswego Fire Department, OR 52 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 52
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #3,599
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Gordon Heights Fi…
- FEMA-LIGHT $222K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Gordon Heights Fire District, NY (+ 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 OR department.
- Lake Oswego (this dept) 52
- High Cedarville Fire P…, IL 52
- Near Gordon Heights Fi…, NY 52
- Near Bedford Township…, IL 52
- Near Bexar-Bulverde Vo…, TX 52
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Lake Oswego, OR
- County
- Clackamas County
- FDID
- 00193
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | EMW-2018-FO-06043 | $221,616.1 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Oregon average
How Lake Oswego Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Oregon. In-state it ranks #39 of 237 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,599 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 42
- OR departments
- 465
County roster fringe
Lake Oswego Fire Department is 3.5% of Clackamas County roster mass
The county lists 21 departments totaling 1,504 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 67% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
7.69 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 52 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Gordon Heights Fire District, NY (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 52 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OR department.