Department profile
Career (Paid)Pawtucket Fire Department
Pawtucket, RI · Providence County. Pawtucket Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 6 stations and 149 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 149
- Total personnel
- 6
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Pawtucket Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Rhode Island average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +292%
- vs. Rhode Island average
- 6
- stations
- $1,813,795
- 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.
Pawtucket Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Pawtucket, RI (Providence County), with 6 stations and 149 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #425 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,813,795.
- National personnel rank #425 of 22,440
- RI personnel rank #3 of 66
- 4.03 stations per 100 personnel
- 33 other listed departments in Providence County
Pawtucket Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
149 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 02600 · Pawtucket Fire Department, RI 149 personnel · 6 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-UNK · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 149
- STA-MULTI 6 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-TOP #425
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bellingham
- FEMA-MID $1.8M
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Bellingham Fire Department, WA (+ 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 RI department.
- High Hoover, AL 150
- Pawtucket (this dept) 149
- Near Bellingham, WA 149
- Near Magnolia Voluntee…, TX 149
- Near Miramar Fire Resc…, FL 149
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Pawtucket, RI
- County
- Providence County
- FDID
- 02600
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | EMW-2023-FG-04165 | $1,000,000 |
| 2022 | EMW-2022-FG-03849 | $813,795.45 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Rhode Island average
How Pawtucket Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Rhode Island. In-state it ranks #3 of 66 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #425 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 6
- State fire deaths/yr
- 9
- RI departments
- 111
County roster fringe
Pawtucket Fire Department is 6.6% of Providence County roster mass
The county lists 46 departments totaling 2,266 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 61% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.03 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (6 stations / 149 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Bellingham Fire Department, WA (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 149 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every RI department.