Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderTacoma Fire Department
Tacoma, WA · Pierce County. Tacoma Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 18 stations and 455 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.
- 455
- Total personnel
- 18
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Tacoma Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Washington average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +1130%
- vs. Washington average
- 18
- 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.
Tacoma Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Tacoma, WA (Pierce County), with 18 stations and 455 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #65 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #65 of 22,440
- WA personnel rank #2 of 120
- 3.96 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 13 other listed departments in Pierce County
Tacoma Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
455 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 27M16 · Tacoma Fire Department, WA 455 personnel · 18 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 455
- STA-MULTI 18 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #65
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Greensboro
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Greensboro Fire Department, NC (+ 4 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 WA department.
- High Horry County Fire…, SC 464
- Near Greensboro, NC 459
- Near Yonkers, NY 459
- Tacoma (this dept) 455
- Low Minneapolis, MN 445
Department Profile
- Type
- MAINLY PAID PROVIDERS
- Location
- Tacoma, WA
- County
- Pierce County
- FDID
- 27M16
Staffing vs the Washington average
How Tacoma Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Washington. In-state it ranks #2 of 120 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #65 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 18
- State fire deaths/yr
- 68
- WA departments
- 483
County roster weight
Tacoma Fire Department carries 29.4% of Pierce County HIFLD personnel
Among 34 listed departments (1,547 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 44% of the county count. County / state rollup.
3.96 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (18 stations / 455 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Greensboro Fire Department, NC (+4 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 455 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every WA department.