Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderLakewood Fire Department
Lakewood, OH · Cuyahoga County. Lakewood Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 81 total personnel. The department also provides EMS services. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 81
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Lakewood Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Ohio average.
- Top 6%
- national personnel size
- +170%
- vs. Ohio average
- 3
- stations
- $177,033
- 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.
Lakewood Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Lakewood, OH (Cuyahoga County), with 3 stations and 81 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,429 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $177,033.
- National personnel rank #1,429 of 22,440
- OH personnel rank #50 of 1,108
- 3.70 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 52 other listed departments in Cuyahoga County
Lakewood Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
81 Top 6% higher than 94% 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 18050 · Lakewood Fire Department, OH 81 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 81
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,429
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ City of West Covi…
- FEMA-LIGHT $177K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: City of West Covina 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 OH department.
- Lakewood (this dept) 81
- High Town of Dover, NJ 81
- Near City of West Covi…, CA 81
- Near Lake Shore Volunt…, NY 81
- Near North Platte, NE 81
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Lakewood, OH
- County
- Cuyahoga County
- FDID
- 18050
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | EMW-2020-FG-12603 | $177,033.19 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Ohio average
How Lakewood Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #50 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,429 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 138
- OH departments
- 1,501
County roster fringe
Lakewood Fire Department is 2.7% of Cuyahoga County roster mass
The county lists 71 departments totaling 3,053 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 89% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.70 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 81 roster).
Photo-finish peer: City of West Covina Fire Department, CA (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 81 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.