Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Trotwood Fire Department

Dayton, OH · Montgomery County. Trotwood Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 4 stations and 110 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.

110
Total personnel
4
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Trotwood Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Ohio average.

Top 4%
national personnel size
+267%
vs. Ohio average
4
stations
$4,338,717
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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
61/100
Trotwood Fire Department

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.

Staffing capacity B
27.5 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
110 personnel · 4 stations

Trotwood Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Dayton, OH (Montgomery County), with 4 stations and 110 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #793 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $4,338,717.

  • National personnel rank #793 of 22,440
  • OH personnel rank #20 of 1,108
  • 3.64 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 27 other listed departments in Montgomery County

Trotwood Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

110 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 57113 · Trotwood Fire Department, OH 110 personnel · 4 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 110
  • STA-FEW 4 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #793
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Mattituck Fire De…
  • FEMA-MID $4.3M
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Mattituck Fire Department / Mattituck Fire District, NY (+ 0 personnel)

Volunteer 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.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Dayton, OH
FDID
57113

FEMA Grant History

$0
Cumulative funding (FY2017–2022)
0
Awards
Year Award Amount
2022 EMW-2022-FG-03879 $99,081.81
2021 EMW-2021-FG-01830 $324,670.9
2020 EMW-2020-FF-00198 $2,425,094.47
2020 EMW-2020-FG-16907 $637,727.27
2020 EMW-2020-FG-17982 $165,510.91
2019 EMW-2019-FG-05903 $166,464
2017 EMW-2017-FO-01373 $338,182
2017 EMW2016FO02357 $181,986

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the Ohio average

How Trotwood Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #20 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #793 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 267% above the state average
Stations
4
State fire deaths/yr
138
OH departments
1,501

County roster fringe

Trotwood Fire Department is 6.3% of Montgomery County roster mass

The county lists 41 departments totaling 1,753 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 88% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.64 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 110 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Mattituck Fire Department / Mattituck Fire District, NY (+0 personnel).

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 110 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.