Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderLehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District
Lehigh Acres, FL · Lee County. Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 58 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.
- 58
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Florida average.
- Top 13%
- national personnel size
- +107%
- vs. Florida average
- 3
- stations
- $25,109,551
- 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.
Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District is a Career (Paid) department serving Lehigh Acres, FL (Lee County), with 3 stations and 58 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,835 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $25,109,551.
- National personnel rank #2,835 of 22,440
- FL personnel rank #86 of 352
- 5.17 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 22 other listed departments in Lee County
Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
58 Top 13% higher than 87% 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 18052 · Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District, FL 58 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 58
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,835
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Center Township E…
- FEMA-HEAVY $25.1M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Center Township Emergency Services, IN (+ 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 FL department.
- Lehigh Acres Fire… (this dept) 58
- High Pompton Lakes Vol…, NJ 58
- Near Center Township E…, IN 58
- Near Reading, MA 58
- Near Walls, MS 58
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Lehigh Acres, FL
- County
- Lee County
- FDID
- 18052
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FF-00927 | $7,865,158.31 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FO-03169 | $423,564 |
| 2014 | EMW2013FO01714 | $288,892 |
| 2012 | EMW2011FH00712 | $-2,934 |
| 2011 | EMW-2011-FH-0071 | $6,716,874 |
| 2009 | EMW-2009-FH-0027 | $9,817,997 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Florida average
How Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Florida. In-state it ranks #86 of 352 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,835 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 206
- FL departments
- 758
County roster fringe
Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District is 6.1% of Lee County roster mass
The county lists 33 departments totaling 953 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 73% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.17 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 58 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Center Township Emergency Services, IN (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 58 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every FL department.