Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderMargate Fire Department
Margate, FL · Broward County. Margate Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 111 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.
- 111
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Margate Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Florida average.
- Top 3%
- national personnel size
- +296%
- vs. Florida average
- 4
- stations
- $298,744
- 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.
Margate Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Margate, FL (Broward County), with 4 stations and 111 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #777 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $298,744.
- National personnel rank #777 of 22,440
- FL personnel rank #39 of 352
- 3.60 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 27 other listed departments in Broward County
Margate Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
111 Top 3% higher than 97% 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 10092 · Margate Fire Department, FL 111 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 111
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #777
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Martins Ferry
- FEMA-LIGHT $299K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Martins Ferry, OH (+ 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.
- Margate (this dept) 111
- High City of Boulder, CO 111
- Near Martins Ferry, OH 111
- Near North Haven, CT 111
- Near Peachtree City Fi…, GA 111
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Margate, FL
- County
- Broward County
- FDID
- 10092
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | EMW2014FO02118 | $298,744 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Florida average
How Margate Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Florida. In-state it ranks #39 of 352 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #777 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 206
- FL departments
- 758
County roster fringe
Margate Fire Department is 4.6% of Broward County roster mass
The county lists 41 departments totaling 2,435 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 100% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.60 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 111 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Martins Ferry, OH (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 111 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every FL department.