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Portsmouth Fire Rescue and Emergency Medical Services

Portsmouth, VA · Portsmouth City County. Portsmouth Fire Rescue and Emergency Medical Services is a fire department. 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.

Not reported
Total personnel
Not reported
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service
F
PlainFireData Composite Score
0/100
Portsmouth Fire Rescue and Emergency Medical Services

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
No station count on file for this department
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
Other department profile

Portsmouth Fire Rescue and Emergency Medical Services is a fire department serving Portsmouth, VA (Portsmouth City County). According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,435,380.

  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 1 other listed department in Portsmouth City County

Dispatch plate

Sheet VA-PORTSMOUTH-FIRE-RESCUE-AND-EMERGENCY-MEDICAL-SERVI-VA · Portsmouth Fire Rescue and Emergency Medical Services, VA personnel n/a

PERS-UNK · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-UNK · GAP-UNK · FEMA-MID · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-UNK Staff pending
  • STA-UNK Stations pending
  • TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UNK Rank pending
  • GAP-UNK Gap pending
  • FEMA-MID $1.4M
  • BOOK-PART 2/5 fields

Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.

Department Profile

Type
Location
Portsmouth, VA

FEMA Grant History

$1.4M
Cumulative funding (FY2014–2022)
5
Awards
Year Award Amount
2022 EMW-2022-FG-04646 $177,272.72
2021 EMW-2021-FG-04633 $286,562.34
2020 EMW-2020-FG-13655 $166,945.39
2018 EMW-2018-FO-05873 $630,000
2014 EMW2013FO03955 $174,600

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

County roster geometry

Portsmouth City County HIFLD mix around Portsmouth Fire Rescue and Emergency Medical Services

Portsmouth City County: 2 departments, 0 personnel (0 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 50% of departments. County / state rollup.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many firefighters does Portsmouth Fire Rescue and Emergency Medical Services have?

Personnel data for Portsmouth Fire Rescue and Emergency Medical Services is not available in the HIFLD database.

Does Portsmouth Fire Rescue and Emergency Medical Services provide EMS services?

Yes, Portsmouth Fire Rescue and Emergency Medical Services provides Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in addition to fire response.

How many fire stations does Portsmouth Fire Rescue and Emergency Medical Services operate?

Station count data for Portsmouth Fire Rescue and Emergency Medical Services is not available in the HIFLD database.

What type of fire department is Portsmouth Fire Rescue and Emergency Medical Services?

Portsmouth Fire Rescue and Emergency Medical Services is a fire department serving Portsmouth City County, VA.

Has Portsmouth Fire Rescue and Emergency Medical Services received federal grants?

Yes, Portsmouth Fire Rescue and Emergency Medical Services has received 5 FEMA grants totaling $1,435,380.45 in cumulative AFG and SAFER awards across FY2014–2022 (sum of all recorded award years, not a single-year figure). The most recent award year in our extract is FY2022.

How many fire departments are in Virginia?

Virginia has 766 fire departments with 25,415 total personnel. 67% are volunteer departments.

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HIFLD/USFA registry extract, informational only, not a readiness rating.