Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderToledo Fire and Rescue Department
Toledo, OH · Lucas County. Toledo Fire and Rescue Department is a Career (Paid) department, 17 stations and 508 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.
- 508
- Total personnel
- 17
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Toledo Fire and Rescue Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Ohio average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +1593%
- vs. Ohio average
- 17
- 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.
Toledo Fire and Rescue Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Toledo, OH (Lucas County), with 17 stations and 508 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #55 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #55 of 22,440
- OH personnel rank #3 of 1,108
- 3.35 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 16 other listed departments in Lucas County
Toledo Fire and Rescue Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
508 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 48017 · Toledo Fire and Rescue Department, OH 508 personnel · 17 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 508
- STA-MULTI 17 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #55
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cy-Fair Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department, TX (+ 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 OH department.
- High Columbia, SC 520
- Toledo Fire and R… (this dept) 508
- Near Cy-Fair Volunteer, TX 508
- Near Virginia Beach, VA 503
- Low Norfolk Fire - Re…, VA 498
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Toledo, OH
- County
- Lucas County
- FDID
- 48017
Staffing vs the Ohio average
How Toledo Fire and Rescue Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #3 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #55 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 17
- State fire deaths/yr
- 138
- OH departments
- 1,501
County roster weight
Toledo Fire and Rescue Department carries 42.5% of Lucas County HIFLD personnel
Among 20 listed departments (1,195 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 50% of the county count. County / state rollup.
3.35 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (17 stations / 508 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department, TX (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 508 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.