Department profile
Career (Paid)Massillon Fire Department
Massillon, OH · Stark County. Massillon Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 48 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 48
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Massillon Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Ohio average.
- Top 19%
- national personnel size
- +60%
- vs. Ohio average
- 4
- stations
- $10,286,840
- 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.
Massillon Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Massillon, OH (Stark County), with 4 stations and 48 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,301 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $10,286,840.
- National personnel rank #4,301 of 22,440
- OH personnel rank #178 of 1,108
- 8.33 stations per 100 personnel
- 31 other listed departments in Stark County
Massillon Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
48 Top 19% higher than 81% 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 76027 · Massillon Fire Department, OH 48 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 48
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #4,301
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Walkerton
- FEMA-HEAVY $10.3M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Walkerton Fire Department, 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 OH department.
- Massillon (this dept) 48
- High South Haven, MN 48
- Near Walkerton, IN 48
- Near Winona Fire Depar…, MN 48
- Near Northwest Rogers…, OK 48
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Massillon, OH
- County
- Stark County
- FDID
- 76027
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | EMW-2012-FH-0066 | $7,899,137 |
| 2012 | EMW2012FH00662 | $1,697,180 |
| 2011 | EMW2011FO05487 | $424,123 |
| 2011 | EMW-2011-FV-0272 | $266,400 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Ohio average
How Massillon Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #178 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,301 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 138
- OH departments
- 1,501
County roster fringe
Massillon Fire Department is 3.9% of Stark County roster mass
The county lists 43 departments totaling 1,237 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 72% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
8.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 48 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Walkerton Fire Department, IN (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 48 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.