Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Saint Bernard Fire Department

Saint Bernard, OH · Hamilton County. Saint Bernard Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 25 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.

25
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Saint Bernard Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Ohio average.

38th pct.
national personnel size
-17%
vs. Ohio average
1
station

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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
54/100
Saint Bernard 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 C
25 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
25 personnel · 1 station

Saint Bernard Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Saint Bernard, OH (Hamilton County), with 1 station and 25 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #13,928 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #13,928 of 22,440
  • OH personnel rank #814 of 1,108
  • 4.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 46 other listed departments in Hamilton County

Saint Bernard Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

25 Top 62% higher than 38% 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 31093 · Saint Bernard Fire Department, OH 25 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 25
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #13,928
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Blacksville Volun…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Blacksville Volunteer Fire Department, WV (+ 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 OH department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Saint Bernard, OH
FDID
31093

Staffing vs the Ohio average

How Saint Bernard Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #814 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #13,928 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 17% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
138
OH departments
1,501

County roster fringe

Saint Bernard Fire Department is 0.9% of Hamilton County roster mass

The county lists 55 departments totaling 2,781 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 93% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

4.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 25 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Blacksville Volunteer Fire Department, WV (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide career peers near 25 personnel

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