Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderSterling Heights Fire Department
Sterling Heights, MI · Macomb County. Sterling Heights Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 102 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.
- 102
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Sterling Heights Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Michigan average.
- Top 4%
- national personnel size
- +364%
- vs. Michigan average
- 5
- stations
- $6,650,184
- 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.
Sterling Heights Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Sterling Heights, MI (Macomb County), with 5 stations and 102 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #898 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $6,650,184.
- National personnel rank #898 of 22,440
- MI personnel rank #11 of 1,008
- 4.90 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 29 other listed departments in Macomb County
Sterling Heights Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
102 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 05019 · Sterling Heights Fire Department, MI 102 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 102
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #898
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Pinecroft-Sedgefi…
- FEMA-HEAVY $6.7M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Pinecroft-Sedgefield Fire, NC (+ 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 MI department.
- Sterling Heights (this dept) 102
- High Valdosta, GA 102
- Near Pinecroft-Sedgefi…, NC 102
- Near Mortlake Fire Com…, CT 102
- Near Kent Volunteer, CT 102
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Sterling Heights, MI
- County
- Macomb County
- FDID
- 05019
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FF-00450 | $2,616,875.98 |
| 2023 | EMW-2023-FG-01239 | $208,863.63 |
| 2022 | EMW-2022-FG-03826 | $301,390.9 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FG-06717 | $507,270 |
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FF-00848 | $1,766,993 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FR-00485 | $1,109,608 |
| 2017 | EMW2016FH00365 | $-230,824 |
| 2016 | EMW2015FO02706 | $176,346 |
| 2014 | EMW2013FO01821 | $193,660 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Michigan average
How Sterling Heights Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Michigan. In-state it ranks #11 of 1,008 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #898 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 112
- MI departments
- 1,274
County roster fringe
Sterling Heights Fire Department is 8.3% of Macomb County roster mass
The county lists 37 departments totaling 1,233 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 92% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.90 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 102 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Pinecroft-Sedgefield Fire, NC (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 102 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MI department.