Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderMount Vernon Fire Department
Mount Vernon, OH · Knox County. Mount Vernon Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 37 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.
- 37
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Mount Vernon Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Ohio average.
- Top 32%
- national personnel size
- +23%
- vs. Ohio average
- 2
- stations
- $1,899,947
- 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.
Mount Vernon Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Mount Vernon, OH (Knox County), with 2 stations and 37 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,086 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,899,947.
- National personnel rank #7,086 of 22,440
- OH personnel rank #356 of 1,108
- 5.41 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 8 other listed departments in Knox County
Mount Vernon Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
37 Top 32% higher than 68% 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 42017 · Mount Vernon Fire Department, OH 37 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 37
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #7,086
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Santa Barbara Cou…
- FEMA-MID $1.9M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Santa Barbara County Fire Department, CA (+ 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.
- Mount Vernon (this dept) 37
- High Placitas Voluntee…, NM 37
- Near Santa Barbara Cou…, CA 37
- Near Hanover, NH 37
- Near Colma Fire Protec…, CA 37
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Mount Vernon, OH
- County
- Knox County
- FDID
- 42017
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FF-01804 | $1,074,372.12 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FG-02807 | $187,847.27 |
| 2017 | EMW2016FV01454 | $637,728 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Ohio average
How Mount Vernon Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #356 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,086 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 138
- OH departments
- 1,501
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Knox County
County mix is mostly volunteer (5 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
5.41 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 37 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Santa Barbara County Fire Department, CA (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 37 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.