Department profile
Career (Paid)Lorain Fire Department - Central Station
Lorain, OH · Lorain County. Lorain Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 80 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 80
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Lorain Fire Department - Central Station pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Ohio average.
- Top 7%
- national personnel size
- +167%
- vs. Ohio average
- 4
- stations
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.
Lorain Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department serving Lorain, OH (Lorain County), with 4 stations and 80 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,489 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,489 of 22,440
- OH personnel rank #56 of 1,108
- 5.00 stations per 100 personnel
- 21 other listed departments in Lorain County
Lorain Fire Department - Central Station vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
80 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 47021 · Lorain Fire Department - Central Station, OH 80 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 80
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #1,489
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Canton Fire and R…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Canton Fire and Rescue, 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 OH department.
- Lorain Fire Depar… (this dept) 80
- High Holtsville, NY 80
- Near Canton Fire and R…, NY 80
- Near North Sabine Volu…, LA 80
- Near Merrimack, NH 80
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Lorain, OH
- County
- Lorain County
- FDID
- 47021
Staffing vs the Ohio average
How Lorain Fire Department - Central Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #56 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,489 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 138
- OH departments
- 1,501
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Lorain County
County mix is mostly volunteer (14 volunteer / 7 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
5.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 80 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Canton Fire and Rescue, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 80 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.