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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
14/100
Lake Oswego Fire Department

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.

Staffing capacity F
13 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment F
$4,262 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
52 personnel · 4 stations

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.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Lake Oswego, OR
FDID
00193

FEMA Grant History

$222K
Cumulative funding (FY2018)
1
Awards
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.

▲ 108% above the state average
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

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Nationwide career peers near 52 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OR department.