Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderTavares Fire Department
Tavares, FL · Lake County. Tavares Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 13 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.
- 13
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Tavares Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Florida average.
- 5th pct.
- national personnel size
- -54%
- vs. Florida average
- 1
- station
- $1,058,262
- 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.
Tavares Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Tavares, FL (Lake County), with 1 station and 13 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #21,224 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,058,262.
- National personnel rank #21,224 of 22,440
- FL personnel rank #326 of 352
- 7.69 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 13 other listed departments in Lake County
Tavares Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
13 Top 95% higher than 5% 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 12042 · Tavares Fire Department, FL 13 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MICRO 13
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #21,224
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cabot Volunteer
- FEMA-MID $1.1M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Cabot Volunteer Fire Department, VT (+ 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.
- Tavares (this dept) 13
- High Bent Tree, GA 13
- Near Cabot Volunteer, VT 13
- Near Yuma Rural Fire P…, CO 13
- Near Wendell, MA 13
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Tavares, FL
- County
- Lake County
- FDID
- 12042
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FF-00181 | $801,119.16 |
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FP-00441 | $257,142.85 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Florida average
How Tavares Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Florida. In-state it ranks #326 of 352 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #21,224 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 206
- FL departments
- 758
County roster fringe
Tavares Fire Department is 4.6% of Lake County roster mass
The county lists 17 departments totaling 281 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 76% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
7.69 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 13 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Cabot Volunteer Fire Department, VT (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 13 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every FL department.