Department profile
Career (Paid)Springfield Fire Department
Springfield, MA · Hampden County. Springfield Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 9 stations and 253 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 253
- Total personnel
- 9
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Springfield Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Massachusetts average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +623%
- vs. Massachusetts average
- 9
- 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.
Springfield Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Springfield, MA (Hampden County), with 9 stations and 253 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #152 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #152 of 22,440
- MA personnel rank #4 of 326
- 3.56 stations per 100 personnel
- 28 other listed departments in Hampden County
Springfield Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
253 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 13281 · Springfield Fire Department, MA 253 personnel · 9 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 253
- STA-MULTI 9 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #152
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Suffolk Departmen…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Suffolk Department of Fire and Rescue, VA (+ 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 MA department.
- High Centereach, NY 255
- Springfield (this dept) 253
- Near Suffolk Departmen…, VA 253
- Low Wilmington Manor…, DE 251
- Near Garland, TX 251
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Springfield, MA
- County
- Hampden County
- FDID
- 13281
Staffing vs the Massachusetts average
How Springfield Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Massachusetts. In-state it ranks #4 of 326 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #152 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 9
- State fire deaths/yr
- 51
- MA departments
- 568
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Hampden County
County mix is mostly volunteer (14 volunteer / 11 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
3.56 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (9 stations / 253 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Suffolk Department of Fire and Rescue, VA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 253 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MA department.