Department profile
Career (Paid)Peabody Fire Department
Peabody, MA · Essex County. Peabody Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 105 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 105
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Peabody Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Massachusetts average.
- Top 4%
- national personnel size
- +200%
- vs. Massachusetts 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.
Peabody Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Peabody, MA (Essex County), with 5 stations and 105 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #852 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #852 of 22,440
- MA personnel rank #24 of 326
- 4.76 stations per 100 personnel
- 47 other listed departments in Essex County
Peabody Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
105 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 09229 · Peabody Fire Department, MA 105 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 105
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #852
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ El Dorado Hills
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: El Dorado Hills Fire Department, CA (+ 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 MA department.
- Peabody (this dept) 105
- High Davie Fire Rescue, FL 105
- Near El Dorado Hills, CA 105
- Near Hurlock Volunteer…, MD 105
- Near Converse County R…, WY 105
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Peabody, MA
- County
- Essex County
- FDID
- 09229
Staffing vs the Massachusetts average
How Peabody Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Massachusetts. In-state it ranks #24 of 326 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #852 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 51
- MA departments
- 568
County roster fringe
Peabody Fire Department is 5.3% of Essex County roster mass
The county lists 55 departments totaling 1,997 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 80% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.76 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 105 roster).
Photo-finish peer: El Dorado Hills Fire Department, CA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 105 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MA department.