Department profile
Career (Paid)Panama City Fire Department - Central Station
Panama City, FL · Bay County. Panama City Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 85 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 85
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Panama City Fire Department - Central Station pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Florida average.
- Top 6%
- national personnel size
- +204%
- 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.
Panama City Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department serving Panama City, FL (Bay County), with 5 stations and 85 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,316 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,316 of 22,440
- FL personnel rank #53 of 352
- 5.88 stations per 100 personnel
- 22 other listed departments in Bay County
Panama City Fire Department - Central Station vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
85 Top 6% higher than 94% 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 23032 · Panama City Fire Department - Central Station, FL 85 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 85
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #1,316
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Parsonsburg Volun…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Parsonsburg Volunteer Fire Department, MD (+ 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.
- Panama City Fire… (this dept) 85
- High Farmington Volunt…, PA 85
- Near Parsonsburg Volun…, MD 85
- Near Meadowood County…, NH 85
- Near Fairview, PA 85
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Panama City, FL
- County
- Bay County
- FDID
- 23032
Staffing vs the Florida average
How Panama City Fire Department - Central Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Florida. In-state it ranks #53 of 352 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,316 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 206
- FL departments
- 758
County roster weight
Panama City Fire Department - Central Station carries 36.6% of Bay County HIFLD personnel
Among 25 listed departments (232 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 20% of the county count. County / state rollup.
5.88 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 85 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Parsonsburg Volunteer Fire Department, MD (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 85 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every FL department.