Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderSyracuse Fire Department
Syracuse, NY · Onondaga County. Syracuse Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 12 stations and 403 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.
- 403
- Total personnel
- 12
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Syracuse Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the New York average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +860%
- vs. New York average
- 12
- 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.
Syracuse Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Syracuse, NY (Onondaga County), with 12 stations and 403 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #71 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #71 of 22,440
- NY personnel rank #3 of 1,368
- 2.98 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 55 other listed departments in Onondaga County
Syracuse Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
403 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 34051 · Syracuse Fire Department, NY 403 personnel · 12 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 403
- STA-MULTI 12 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #71
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Chattanooga
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Chattanooga Fire Department, TN ( -3 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 NY department.
- High Contra Costa Coun…, CA 406
- Syracuse (this dept) 403
- Near Chattanooga, TN 400
- Near Middletown Townsh…, NJ 400
- Low Corpus Christi, TX 399
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Syracuse, NY
- County
- Onondaga County
- FDID
- 34051
Staffing vs the New York average
How Syracuse Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #3 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #71 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 12
- State fire deaths/yr
- 150
- NY departments
- 2,253
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Onondaga County
County mix is mostly volunteer (46 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
2.98 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (12 stations / 403 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Chattanooga Fire Department, TN (-3 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 403 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NY department.