Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderSalt Lake City Fire Department
Salt Lake City, UT · Salt Lake County. Salt Lake City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 14 stations and 366 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.
- 366
- Total personnel
- 14
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Salt Lake City Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Utah average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +1730%
- vs. Utah average
- 14
- 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.
Salt Lake City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Salt Lake City, UT (Salt Lake County), with 14 stations and 366 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #83 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #83 of 22,440
- UT personnel rank #1 of 162
- 3.83 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 10 other listed departments in Salt Lake County
Salt Lake City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
366 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 35005 · Salt Lake City Fire Department, UT 366 personnel · 14 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 366
- STA-MULTI 14 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #83
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bridgeport Fire D…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Bridgeport Fire Department - Rescue Squad 5, CT (+ 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 UT department.
- Salt Lake City (this dept) 366
- High Bridgeport Fire D…, CT 366
- Near Stockton, CA 364
- Near Hartford Fire Dep…, CT 364
- Low Fresno County Fir…, CA 357
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Salt Lake City, UT
- County
- Salt Lake County
- FDID
- 35005
Staffing vs the Utah average
How Salt Lake City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Utah. In-state it ranks #1 of 162 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #83 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 14
- State fire deaths/yr
- 26
- UT departments
- 271
County roster weight
Salt Lake City Fire Department carries 41.0% of Salt Lake County HIFLD personnel
Among 19 listed departments (893 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 5% of the county count. County / state rollup.
3.83 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (14 stations / 366 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Bridgeport Fire Department - Rescue Squad 5, CT (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 366 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every UT department.