Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderOmaha Fire and Rescue
Omaha, NE · Douglas County. Omaha Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 23 stations and 655 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.
- 655
- Total personnel
- 23
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Omaha Fire and Rescue pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Nebraska average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +3539%
- vs. Nebraska average
- 23
- stations
- $12,472,576
- 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.
Omaha Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving Omaha, NE (Douglas County), with 23 stations and 655 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #40 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $12,472,576.
- National personnel rank #40 of 22,440
- NE personnel rank #1 of 258
- 3.51 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 8 other listed departments in Douglas County
Omaha Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
655 Top 1% higher than 99%+ 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 01005 · Omaha Fire and Rescue, NE 655 personnel · 23 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-SYSTEM · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 655
- STA-SYSTEM 23 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #40
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Pasco County Fire…
- FEMA-HEAVY $12.5M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Pasco County Fire Rescue, FL (+ 4 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 NE department.
- High City of Miami Dep…, FL 681
- Near Pasco County Fire…, FL 659
- Omaha Fire and Re… (this dept) 655
- Near City of las Vegas…, NV 648
- Low Hanover County Fi…, VA 631
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Omaha, NE
- County
- Douglas County
- FDID
- 01005
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | EMW-2023-FF-00238 | $6,828,750 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FG-05575 | $1,012,500 |
| 2020 | EMW-2020-FG-12879 | $802,022.73 |
| 2018 | EMW-2018-FO-05826 | $716,829 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FO-06933 | $821,864 |
| 2017 | EMW2016FO06996 | $437,501 |
| 2017 | EMW2016FP00807 | $189,620 |
| 2016 | EMW2015FR00456 | $2,260,607 |
| 2015 | EMW2014FV02611 | $226,471 |
| 2015 | EMW2014FP00935 | $161,621 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Nebraska average
How Omaha Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Nebraska. In-state it ranks #1 of 258 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #40 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 23
- State fire deaths/yr
- 26
- NE departments
- 511
County roster weight
Omaha Fire and Rescue carries 70.5% of Douglas County HIFLD personnel
Among 10 listed departments (929 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 70% of the county count. County / state rollup.
3.51 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (23 stations / 655 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Pasco County Fire Rescue, FL (+4 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 655 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NE department.