Department profile
Career (Paid)Shawnee Fire Department
Shawnee, OK · Pottawatomie County. Shawnee Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 50 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 50
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Shawnee Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Oklahoma average.
- Top 18%
- national personnel size
- +317%
- vs. Oklahoma average
- 3
- stations
- $946,617
- 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.
Shawnee Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Shawnee, OK (Pottawatomie County), with 3 stations and 50 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,039 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $946,617.
- National personnel rank #4,039 of 22,440
- OK personnel rank #23 of 513
- 6.00 stations per 100 personnel
- 11 other listed departments in Pottawatomie County
Shawnee Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
50 Top 18% higher than 82% 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 63011 · Shawnee Fire Department, OK 50 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 50
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #4,039
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Ellsworth Volunte…
- FEMA-MID $947K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Ellsworth Volunteer Fire Company, PA (+ 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 OK department.
- Shawnee (this dept) 50
- High Tidioute Area Vol…, PA 50
- Near Ellsworth Volunte…, PA 50
- Near West Finley Volun…, PA 50
- Near West Brownsville…, PA 50
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Shawnee, OK
- County
- Pottawatomie County
- FDID
- 63011
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | EMW-2022-FG-08863 | $111,447.27 |
| 2013 | EMW2012FH00516 | $835,170 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Oklahoma average
How Shawnee Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Oklahoma. In-state it ranks #23 of 513 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,039 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 68
- OK departments
- 1,049
County roster weight
Shawnee Fire Department carries 31.6% of Pottawatomie County HIFLD personnel
Among 16 listed departments (158 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 38% of the county count. County / state rollup.
6.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 50 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Ellsworth Volunteer Fire Company, PA (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 50 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OK department.