Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderRomulus Fire and Rescue Department
Romulus, MI · Wayne County. Romulus Fire and Rescue Department is a Volunteer department, 4 stations and 44 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.
- 44
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Romulus Fire and Rescue Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Michigan average.
- Top 23%
- national personnel size
- +100%
- vs. Michigan average
- 4
- stations
- $3,468,766
- 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.
Romulus Fire and Rescue Department is a Volunteer department serving Romulus, MI (Wayne County), with 4 stations and 44 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,184 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $3,468,766.
- National personnel rank #5,184 of 22,440
- MI personnel rank #93 of 1,008
- 9.09 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 44 other listed departments in Wayne County
Romulus Fire and Rescue Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
44 Top 23% higher than 77% 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 08241 · Romulus Fire and Rescue Department, MI 44 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 44
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,184
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cortez Fire Prote…
- FEMA-MID $3.5M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Cortez Fire Protection District, CO (+ 0 personnel)
Volunteer 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 MI department.
- Romulus Fire and… (this dept) 44
- High Reidsville, NC 44
- Near Cortez Fire Prote…, CO 44
- Near Goodyear, AZ 44
- Near Groton Long Point, CT 44
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Romulus, MI
- County
- Wayne County
- FDID
- 08241
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FG-08074 | $544,122.41 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FF-01130 | $1,548,799.2 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FH-00339 | $662,038.39 |
| 2014 | EMW2013FH00408 | $713,806 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Michigan average
How Romulus Fire and Rescue Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Michigan. In-state it ranks #93 of 1,008 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,184 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 112
- MI departments
- 1,274
County roster fringe
Romulus Fire and Rescue Department is 2.7% of Wayne County roster mass
The county lists 59 departments totaling 1,641 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 100% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
9.09 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 44 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Cortez Fire Protection District, CO (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 44 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MI department.