Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderPalm Beach Gardens Fire/Rescue
Palm Beach Gardens, FL · Palm Beach County. Palm Beach Gardens Fire/Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 156 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.
- 156
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Palm Beach Gardens Fire/Rescue pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Florida average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +457%
- vs. Florida average
- 5
- stations
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.
Palm Beach Gardens Fire/Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving Palm Beach Gardens, FL (Palm Beach County), with 5 stations and 156 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #379 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #379 of 22,440
- FL personnel rank #25 of 352
- 3.21 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 15 other listed departments in Palm Beach County
Palm Beach Gardens Fire/Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
156 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 06042 · Palm Beach Gardens Fire/Rescue, FL 156 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 156
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #379
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Washington Townsh…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Washington Township Fire District, NJ (+ 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 FL department.
- High Pine Hollow Volun…, OR 157
- Palm Beach Garden… (this dept) 156
- Near Washington Townsh…, NJ 156
- Near Meriwether County…, GA 156
- Near Wichita Falls, TX 156
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Palm Beach Gardens, FL
- County
- Palm Beach County
- FDID
- 06042
Staffing vs the Florida average
How Palm Beach Gardens Fire/Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Florida. In-state it ranks #25 of 352 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #379 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 206
- FL departments
- 758
County roster fringe
Palm Beach Gardens Fire/Rescue is 6.5% of Palm Beach County roster mass
The county lists 25 departments totaling 2,408 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 96% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.21 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 156 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Washington Township Fire District, NJ (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 156 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every FL department.