Department profile
Career (Paid)Parma Fire Department
Parma, OH · Cuyahoga County. Parma Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 103 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 103
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Parma Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Ohio average.
- Top 4%
- national personnel size
- +243%
- vs. Ohio 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.
Parma Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Parma, OH (Cuyahoga County), with 5 stations and 103 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #885 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #885 of 22,440
- OH personnel rank #25 of 1,108
- 4.85 stations per 100 personnel
- 52 other listed departments in Cuyahoga County
Parma Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
103 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 18081 · Parma Fire Department, OH 103 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 103
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #885
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Central Lyon Coun…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Central Lyon County Fire Protection District - Sutro Fire Department, NV (+ 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.
- Parma (this dept) 103
- High Eagle Fire Protec…, ID 103
- Near Central Lyon Coun…, NV 103
- Near Garden Grove, CA 103
- Near Westerly, RI 103
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Parma, OH
- County
- Cuyahoga County
- FDID
- 18081
Staffing vs the Ohio average
How Parma Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #25 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #885 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 138
- OH departments
- 1,501
County roster fringe
Parma Fire Department is 3.4% of Cuyahoga County roster mass
The county lists 71 departments totaling 3,053 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 89% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.85 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 103 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Central Lyon County Fire Protection District - Sutro Fire Department, NV (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 103 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.