Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderPlattsburgh City Fire Department
Plattsburgh, NY · Clinton County. Plattsburgh City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 38 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.
- 38
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Plattsburgh City Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the New York average.
- Top 30%
- national personnel size
- -10%
- vs. New York average
- 2
- 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.
Plattsburgh City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Plattsburgh, NY (Clinton County), with 2 stations and 38 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #6,832 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #6,832 of 22,440
- NY personnel rank #956 of 1,368
- 5.26 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 20 other listed departments in Clinton County
Plattsburgh City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
38 Top 30% higher than 70% 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 10019 · Plattsburgh City Fire Department, NY 38 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 38
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #6,832
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Double Island Vol…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Double Island Volunteer Fire Department, NC (+ 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 NY department.
- Plattsburgh City (this dept) 38
- High Sanger, CA 38
- Near Double Island Vol…, NC 38
- Near East Fork Volunte…, KY 38
- Near Dorchester Volunt…, WI 38
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Plattsburgh, NY
- County
- Clinton County
- FDID
- 10019
Staffing vs the New York average
How Plattsburgh City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #956 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #6,832 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 150
- NY departments
- 2,253
County roster fringe
Plattsburgh City Fire Department is 4.1% of Clinton County roster mass
The county lists 28 departments totaling 927 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 79% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.26 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 38 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Double Island Volunteer Fire Department, NC (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 38 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NY department.