Department profile
Career (Paid)Torrington Fire Department
Torrington, CT · Litchfield County. Torrington Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 98 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 98
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Torrington Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Connecticut average.
- Top 4%
- national personnel size
- +145%
- vs. Connecticut average
- 2
- 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.
Torrington Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Torrington, CT (Litchfield County), with 2 stations and 98 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,003 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,003 of 22,440
- CT personnel rank #31 of 203
- 2.04 stations per 100 personnel
- 42 other listed departments in Litchfield County
Torrington Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
98 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 01210 · Torrington Fire Department, CT 98 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 98
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #1,003
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Springfield Depar…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Springfield Department of Fire and Life Safety, OR (+ 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 CT department.
- Torrington (this dept) 98
- High Grapevine, TX 98
- Near Springfield Depar…, OR 98
- Near Atascocita Volunt…, TX 98
- Near Cicero, IL 98
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Torrington, CT
- County
- Litchfield County
- FDID
- 01210
Staffing vs the Connecticut average
How Torrington Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Connecticut. In-state it ranks #31 of 203 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,003 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 34
- CT departments
- 418
County roster fringe
Torrington Fire Department is 5.8% of Litchfield County roster mass
The county lists 48 departments totaling 1,685 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 38% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.04 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 98 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Springfield Department of Fire and Life Safety, OR (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 98 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CT department.