Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderTallahassee City Fire Department
Tallahassee, FL · Leon County. Tallahassee City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 15 stations and 265 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.
- 265
- Total personnel
- 15
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Tallahassee City Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Florida average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +846%
- vs. Florida average
- 15
- stations
- $629,998
- 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.
Tallahassee City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Tallahassee, FL (Leon County), with 15 stations and 265 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #141 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $629,998.
- National personnel rank #141 of 22,440
- FL personnel rank #13 of 352
- 5.66 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 5 other listed departments in Leon County
Tallahassee City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
265 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 13012 · Tallahassee City Fire Department, FL 265 personnel · 15 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 265
- STA-MULTI 15 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #141
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Santa Clara
- FEMA-MID $630K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Santa Clara Fire Department, CA (+ 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 FL department.
- Tallahassee City (this dept) 265
- High Santa Clara, CA 265
- Near Elizabeth, NJ 264
- Near Santa Barbara Cou…, CA 264
- Low New Bedford, MA 262
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Tallahassee, FL
- County
- Leon County
- FDID
- 13012
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FG-08632 | $199,628.18 |
| 2017 | EMW2016FO02508 | $430,370 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Florida average
How Tallahassee City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Florida. In-state it ranks #13 of 352 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #141 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 15
- State fire deaths/yr
- 206
- FL departments
- 758
County roster weight
Tallahassee City Fire Department carries 82.6% of Leon County HIFLD personnel
Among 7 listed departments (321 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 43% of the county count. County / state rollup.
5.66 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (15 stations / 265 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Santa Clara Fire Department, CA (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 265 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every FL department.