Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Mansfield Fire Department

Mansfield, OH · Richland County. Mansfield Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 106 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.

106
Total personnel
5
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Mansfield Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Ohio average.

Top 4%
national personnel size
+253%
vs. Ohio average
5
stations
$568,470
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
32/100
Mansfield 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 C
21.2 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 F
$5,363 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
106 personnel · 5 stations

Mansfield Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Mansfield, OH (Richland County), with 5 stations and 106 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #830 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $568,470.

  • National personnel rank #830 of 22,440
  • OH personnel rank #23 of 1,108
  • 4.72 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 12 other listed departments in Richland County

Mansfield Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

106 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 70009 · Mansfield Fire Department, OH 106 personnel · 5 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 106
  • STA-FEW 5 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #830
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Mastic
  • FEMA-MID $568K
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Mastic Fire Department, 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.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Mansfield, OH
FDID
70009

FEMA Grant History

$568K
Cumulative funding (FY2017–2024)
2
Awards
Year Award Amount
2024 EMW-2024-FG-00027 $259,841.79
2017 EMW2016FO04188 $308,628

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the Ohio average

How Mansfield Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #23 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #830 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 253% above the state average
Stations
5
State fire deaths/yr
138
OH departments
1,501

County staffing outlier

Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Richland County

County mix is mostly volunteer (11 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.

4.72 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 106 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Mastic Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).

Nationwide career peers near 106 personnel

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