Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Lansing Fire Department

Lansing, NY · Tompkins County. Lansing Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 76 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.

76
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Lansing Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount well above the New York average.

Top 7%
national personnel size
+81%
vs. New York average
1
station

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
PlainFireData Composite Score
97/100
Lansing 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 A
76 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
76 personnel · 1 station

Lansing Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Lansing, NY (Tompkins County), with 1 station and 76 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,625 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #1,625 of 22,440
  • NY personnel rank #273 of 1,368
  • 1.32 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 18 other listed departments in Tompkins County

Lansing Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

76 Top 7% higher than 93% 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 55011 · Lansing Fire Department, NY 76 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 76
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,625
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Colonial Heights…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Colonial Heights Fire and Emergency Medical Services, VA (+ 0 personnel)

Volunteer 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 NY department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Lansing, NY
FDID
55011

Staffing vs the New York average

How Lansing Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #273 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,625 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 81% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
150
NY departments
2,253

County roster fringe

Lansing Fire Department is 9.9% of Tompkins County roster mass

The county lists 21 departments totaling 764 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 100% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

1.32 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 76 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Colonial Heights Fire and Emergency Medical Services, VA (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

Nationwide volunteer peers near 76 personnel

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