Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Ponca City Fire Department

Ponca City, OK · Kay County. Ponca City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 70 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.

70
Total personnel
4
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Ponca City Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Oklahoma average.

Top 9%
national personnel size
+483%
vs. Oklahoma average
4
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
30/100
Ponca City Fire Department

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.

Staffing capacity D
17.5 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
70 personnel · 4 stations

Ponca City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Ponca City, OK (Kay County), with 4 stations and 70 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,950 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #1,950 of 22,440
  • OK personnel rank #14 of 513
  • 5.71 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 11 other listed departments in Kay County

Ponca City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

70 Top 9% higher than 91% 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 36007 · Ponca City Fire Department, OK 70 personnel · 4 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 70
  • STA-FEW 4 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,950
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Oxford
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Oxford Fire Department, MS (+ 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 OK department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Ponca City, OK
FDID
36007

Staffing vs the Oklahoma average

How Ponca City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Oklahoma. In-state it ranks #14 of 513 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,950 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 483% above the state average
Stations
4
State fire deaths/yr
68
OK departments
1,049

County roster weight

Ponca City Fire Department carries 31.3% of Kay County HIFLD personnel

Among 13 listed departments (224 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 62% of the county count. County / state rollup.

5.71 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 70 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Oxford Fire Department, MS (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

Nationwide career peers near 70 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OK department.