Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderPortage Fire Department
Portage, IN · Porter County. Portage Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 60 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.
- 60
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Portage Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Indiana average.
- Top 12%
- national personnel size
- +161%
- vs. Indiana average
- 3
- stations
- $987,075
- 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.
Portage Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Portage, IN (Porter County), with 3 stations and 60 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,689 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $987,075.
- National personnel rank #2,689 of 22,440
- IN personnel rank #48 of 589
- 5.00 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 19 other listed departments in Porter County
Portage Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
60 Top 12% higher than 88% 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 64011 · Portage Fire Department, IN 60 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 60
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,689
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lyons Fire Depart…
- FEMA-MID $987K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Lyons Fire Department and Rescue Squad, WI (+ 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 IN department.
- Portage (this dept) 60
- High Dundee Volunteer, NY 60
- Near Lyons Fire Depart…, WI 60
- Near Wilpen Ligonier T…, PA 60
- Near East Huntingdon T…, PA 60
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Portage, IN
- County
- Porter County
- FDID
- 64011
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FG-02203 | $201,192.72 |
| 2015 | EMW2014FR00328 | $785,882 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Indiana average
How Portage Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Indiana. In-state it ranks #48 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,689 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 94
- IN departments
- 969
County roster fringe
Portage Fire Department is 9.4% of Porter County roster mass
The county lists 23 departments totaling 640 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 61% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 60 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Lyons Fire Department and Rescue Squad, WI (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 60 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IN department.