Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderState of Hawaii Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting - Hilo Station
Hilo, HI · Hawaii County. State of Hawaii Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting - Hilo Station is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 48 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.
- 48
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
State of Hawaii Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting - Hilo Station pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount below the Hawaii average.
- Top 19%
- national personnel size
- -19%
- vs. Hawaii 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.
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.
State of Hawaii Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting - Hilo Station is a Career (Paid) department serving Hilo, HI (Hawaii County), with 1 station and 48 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,351 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,351 of 22,440
- HI personnel rank #5 of 5
- 2.08 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 22 other listed departments in Hawaii County
State of Hawaii Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting - Hilo Station vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
48 Top 19% higher than 81% 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 HI-STATE-OF-HAWAII-AIRCRAFT-RESCUE-FIRE-FIGHTING-HILO-HI · State of Hawaii Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting - Hilo Station, HI 48 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 48
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,351
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ 104th Fighter Win…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: 104th Fighter Wing Barnes Air National Guard Fire and Rescue-Dod, MA (+ 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 HI department.
- State of Hawaii A… (this dept) 48
- High Grayslake Fire Pr…, IL 48
- Near 104th Fighter Win…, MA 48
- Near Central, SC 48
- Near Fort Detrick Fire…, MD 48
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Hilo, HI
- County
- Hawaii County
Staffing vs the Hawaii average
How State of Hawaii Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting - Hilo Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Hawaii. In-state it ranks #5 of 5 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,351 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 6
- HI departments
- 43
County roster fringe
State of Hawaii Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting - Hilo Station is 6.3% of Hawaii County roster mass
The county lists 24 departments totaling 762 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 92% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.08 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 48 roster).
Photo-finish peer: 104th Fighter Wing Barnes Air National Guard Fire and Rescue-Dod, MA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 48 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every HI department.