Department profile
Career (Paid)Sylvania Township Fire Department
Sylvania, OH · Lucas County. Sylvania Township Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 64 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 64
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Sylvania Township Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Ohio average.
- Top 10%
- national personnel size
- +113%
- 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.
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.
Sylvania Township Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Sylvania, OH (Lucas County), with 4 stations and 64 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,342 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,342 of 22,440
- OH personnel rank #98 of 1,108
- 6.25 stations per 100 personnel
- 16 other listed departments in Lucas County
Sylvania Township Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
64 Top 10% higher than 90% 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 48117 · Sylvania Township Fire Department, OH 64 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 64
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #2,342
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Plainfield Townsh…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Plainfield Township Volunteer Fire Company / Plainfield Township Ambulance Corps, 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 OH department.
- Sylvania Township (this dept) 64
- High Rincon Valley Fir…, CA 64
- Near Plainfield Townsh…, PA 64
- Near LA Place Volunteer, LA 64
- Near Eunice, LA 64
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Sylvania, OH
- County
- Lucas County
- FDID
- 48117
Staffing vs the Ohio average
How Sylvania Township Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #98 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,342 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 138
- OH departments
- 1,501
County roster fringe
Sylvania Township Fire Department is 5.4% of Lucas County roster mass
The county lists 20 departments totaling 1,195 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 55% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
6.25 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 64 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Plainfield Township Volunteer Fire Company / Plainfield Township Ambulance Corps, PA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 64 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.