Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Saint Petersburg Fire and Rescue

Saint Petersburg, FL · Pinellas County. Saint Petersburg Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 13 stations and 354 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.

354
Total personnel
13
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Saint Petersburg Fire and Rescue pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Florida average.

Top 1%
national personnel size
+1164%
vs. Florida average
13
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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
60/100
Saint Petersburg Fire and Rescue

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
27.2 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
354 personnel · 13 stations

Saint Petersburg Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving Saint Petersburg, FL (Pinellas County), with 13 stations and 354 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #88 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #88 of 22,440
  • FL personnel rank #7 of 352
  • 3.67 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 23 other listed departments in Pinellas County

Saint Petersburg Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

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

354 Top 1% higher than 99%+ 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 04112 · Saint Petersburg Fire and Rescue, FL 354 personnel · 13 stations

PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-LARGE 354
  • STA-MULTI 13 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #88
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Walker County Eme…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Walker County Emergency Services, GA (+ 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 FL department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Saint Petersburg, FL
FDID
04112

Staffing vs the Florida average

How Saint Petersburg Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Florida. In-state it ranks #7 of 352 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #88 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 1164% above the state average
Stations
13
State fire deaths/yr
206
FL departments
758

County roster weight

Saint Petersburg Fire and Rescue carries 28.8% of Pinellas County HIFLD personnel

Among 31 listed departments (1,231 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 3% of the county count. County / state rollup.

3.67 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (13 stations / 354 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Walker County Emergency Services, GA (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide career peers near 354 personnel

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