Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderTampa Fire and Rescue
Tampa, FL · Hillsborough County. Tampa Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 22 stations and 628 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.
- 628
- Total personnel
- 22
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Tampa Fire and Rescue pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Florida average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +2143%
- vs. Florida average
- 22
- stations
- $7,909,042
- 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.
Tampa Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving Tampa, FL (Hillsborough County), with 22 stations and 628 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #43 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $7,909,042.
- National personnel rank #43 of 22,440
- FL personnel rank #4 of 352
- 3.50 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 7 other listed departments in Hillsborough County
Tampa Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
628 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 03072 · Tampa Fire and Rescue, FL 628 personnel · 22 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-SYSTEM · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 628
- STA-SYSTEM 22 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #43
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hanover County Fi…
- FEMA-HEAVY $7.9M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Hanover County Fire and Emergency Medical Services - Hanover Courthouse Volunteer Fire, VA (+ 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 FL department.
- High Omaha Fire and Re…, NE 655
- Near City of las Vegas…, NV 648
- Near Hanover County Fi…, VA 631
- Tampa Fire and Re… (this dept) 628
- Low Kern County, CA 625
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Tampa, FL
- County
- Hillsborough County
- FDID
- 03072
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FP-00700 | $229,821.9 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FG-10096 | $573,971.81 |
| 2020 | EMW-2020-FF-01276 | $6,458,967 |
| 2020 | EMW-2020-FG-13944 | $1,088,418.18 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FO-04423 | $281,544 |
| 2017 | EMW2016FP00238 | $198,798 |
| - | EMW2016FH00190 | $-922,478.86 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Florida average
How Tampa Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Florida. In-state it ranks #4 of 352 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #43 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 22
- State fire deaths/yr
- 206
- FL departments
- 758
County roster weight
Tampa Fire and Rescue carries 69.1% of Hillsborough County HIFLD personnel
Among 13 listed departments (909 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 23% of the county count. County / state rollup.
3.50 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (22 stations / 628 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Hanover County Fire and Emergency Medical Services - Hanover Courthouse Volunteer Fire, VA (+3 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 628 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every FL department.