Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderTice Fire Protection and Rescue District
Fort Myers, FL · Lee County. Tice Fire Protection and Rescue District is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 30 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.
- 30
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Tice Fire Protection and Rescue District pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the Florida average.
- Top 48%
- national personnel size
- +7%
- vs. Florida average
- 3
- 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.
Tice Fire Protection and Rescue District is a Career (Paid) department serving Fort Myers, FL (Lee County), with 3 stations and 30 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #10,790 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #10,790 of 22,440
- FL personnel rank #176 of 352
- 10.00 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 22 other listed departments in Lee County
Tice Fire Protection and Rescue District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
30 Top 48% higher than 52% 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 18012 · Tice Fire Protection and Rescue District, FL 30 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 30
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-MID #10,790
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Grant
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Grant Fire Department, MT (+ 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.
- Tice Fire Protect… (this dept) 30
- High Bedford Division…, OH 30
- Near Grant, MT 30
- Near Far Hills-Bedmins…, NJ 30
- Near McLaurin Volunteer, MS 30
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Fort Myers, FL
- County
- Lee County
- FDID
- 18012
Staffing vs the Florida average
How Tice Fire Protection and Rescue District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Florida. In-state it ranks #176 of 352 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #10,790 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 206
- FL departments
- 758
County roster fringe
Tice Fire Protection and Rescue District is 3.1% of Lee County roster mass
The county lists 33 departments totaling 953 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 73% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
10.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 30 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Grant Fire Department, MT (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 30 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every FL department.