Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderMiddletown Fire Department
Middletown, CT · Middlesex County. Middletown Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 60 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.
- 60
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Middletown Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Connecticut average.
- Top 12%
- national personnel size
- +50%
- vs. Connecticut average
- 1
- station
- $2,063,548
- 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.
Middletown Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Middletown, CT (Middlesex County), with 1 station and 60 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,654 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $2,063,548.
- National personnel rank #2,654 of 22,440
- CT personnel rank #83 of 203
- 1.67 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 16 other listed departments in Middlesex County
Middletown Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
60 Top 12% higher than 88% 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 07120 · Middletown Fire Department, CT 60 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 60
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,654
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Poudre Canyon Fir…
- FEMA-MID $2.1M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Poudre Canyon Fire Protection District, CO (+ 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 CT department.
- Middletown (this dept) 60
- High Deltona Fire Resc…, FL 60
- Near Poudre Canyon Fir…, CO 60
- Near Hubert Volunteer, NC 60
- Near Ridgebury Volunte…, PA 60
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Middletown, CT
- County
- Middlesex County
- FDID
- 07120
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FF-01868 | $859,039.35 |
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FG-02055 | $259,601.52 |
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FG-05602 | $177,333 |
| 2016 | EMW2015FO05522 | $285,081 |
| 2013 | EMW2012FO00245 | $165,300 |
| 2013 | EMW2012FH00831 | $-1,142,584 |
| 2012 | EMW-2012-FH-0083 | $1,142,584 |
| 2011 | EMW-2011-FO-0915 | $317,194 |
| 2009 | EMW2008FF00857 | $-1 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Connecticut average
How Middletown Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Connecticut. In-state it ranks #83 of 203 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,654 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 34
- CT departments
- 418
County roster fringe
Middletown Fire Department is 5.7% of Middlesex County roster mass
The county lists 30 departments totaling 1,060 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 60% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
1.67 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 60 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Poudre Canyon Fire Protection District, CO (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 60 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CT department.