Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Strongsville Fire and Emergency Services

Strongsville, OH · Cuyahoga County. Strongsville Fire and Emergency Services is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 70 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.

70
Total personnel
4
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Strongsville Fire and Emergency Services pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Ohio average.

Top 9%
national personnel size
+133%
vs. Ohio average
4
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
30/100
Strongsville Fire and Emergency Services

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.

Staffing capacity D
17.5 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
70 personnel · 4 stations

Strongsville Fire and Emergency Services is a Career (Paid) department serving Strongsville, OH (Cuyahoga County), with 4 stations and 70 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,971 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #1,971 of 22,440
  • OH personnel rank #77 of 1,108
  • 5.71 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 52 other listed departments in Cuyahoga County

Strongsville Fire and Emergency Services vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

70 Top 9% higher than 91% 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 18091 · Strongsville Fire and Emergency Services, OH 70 personnel · 4 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 70
  • STA-FEW 4 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,971
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Calloway County F…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Calloway County Fire and Rescue, KY (+ 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 OH department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Strongsville, OH
FDID
18091

Staffing vs the Ohio average

How Strongsville Fire and Emergency Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #77 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,971 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 133% above the state average
Stations
4
State fire deaths/yr
138
OH departments
1,501

County roster fringe

Strongsville Fire and Emergency Services is 2.3% of Cuyahoga County roster mass

The county lists 71 departments totaling 3,053 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 89% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

5.71 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 70 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Calloway County Fire and Rescue, KY (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

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Nationwide career peers near 70 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.