Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderPoughkeepsie Fire Department
Poughkeepsie, NY · Dutchess County. Poughkeepsie Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 73 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.
- 73
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Poughkeepsie Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount well above the New York average.
- Top 8%
- national personnel size
- +74%
- vs. New York average
- 3
- 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.
Poughkeepsie Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Poughkeepsie, NY (Dutchess County), with 3 stations and 73 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,773 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,773 of 22,440
- NY personnel rank #298 of 1,368
- 4.11 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 44 other listed departments in Dutchess County
Poughkeepsie Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
73 Top 8% higher than 92% 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 14024 · Poughkeepsie Fire Department, NY 73 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 73
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,773
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Morris Township
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Morris Township Fire Department, NJ (+ 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.
- Poughkeepsie (this dept) 73
- High Woburn, MA 73
- Near Morris Township, NJ 73
- Near Agawam, MA 73
- Near Community Volunte…, PA 73
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Poughkeepsie, NY
- County
- Dutchess County
- FDID
- 14024
Staffing vs the New York average
How Poughkeepsie Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #298 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,773 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 150
- NY departments
- 2,253
County roster fringe
Poughkeepsie Fire Department is 3.3% of Dutchess County roster mass
The county lists 53 departments totaling 2,209 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 96% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.11 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 73 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Morris Township Fire Department, NJ (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 73 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NY department.