Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderMilford Fire Department
Milford, CT · New Haven County. Milford Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 129 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.
- 129
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Milford Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Connecticut average.
- Top 3%
- national personnel size
- +223%
- vs. Connecticut average
- 5
- stations
- $979,773
- 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.
Milford Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Milford, CT (New Haven County), with 5 stations and 129 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #579 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $979,773.
- National personnel rank #579 of 22,440
- CT personnel rank #19 of 203
- 3.88 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 34 other listed departments in New Haven County
Milford Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
129 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 06140 · Milford Fire Department, CT 129 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 129
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #579
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Alpharetta Depart…
- FEMA-MID $980K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Alpharetta Department of Public Safety Division of Fire, GA (+ 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.
- Milford (this dept) 129
- High Charlottesville, VA 129
- Near Alpharetta Depart…, GA 129
- Near Cherry Hill, NJ 129
- Near Des Plaines, IL 129
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Milford, CT
- County
- New Haven County
- FDID
- 06140
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | EMW-2023-FG-04238 | $441,000 |
| 2018 | EMW-2018-FO-01172 | $258,773 |
| 2013 | EMW2012FO06196 | $280,000 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Connecticut average
How Milford Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Connecticut. In-state it ranks #19 of 203 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #579 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 34
- CT departments
- 418
County roster fringe
Milford Fire Department is 3.7% of New Haven County roster mass
The county lists 59 departments totaling 3,458 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 61% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.88 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 129 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Alpharetta Department of Public Safety Division of Fire, GA (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 129 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CT department.