Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Tulsa Fire Department

Tulsa, OK · Tulsa County. Tulsa Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 30 stations and 730 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.

730
Total personnel
30
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Tulsa Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Oklahoma average.

Top 1%
national personnel size
+5983%
vs. Oklahoma average
30
stations
$21,782,453
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
52/100
Tulsa 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 C
24.3 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
730 personnel · 30 stations

Tulsa Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Tulsa, OK (Tulsa County), with 30 stations and 730 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #35 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $21,782,453.

  • National personnel rank #35 of 22,440
  • OK personnel rank #2 of 513
  • 4.11 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 16 other listed departments in Tulsa County

Tulsa Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

730 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 72009 · Tulsa Fire Department, OK 730 personnel · 30 stations

PERS-LARGE · STA-SYSTEM · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-LARGE 730
  • STA-SYSTEM 30 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #35
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Newark Fire Depar…
  • FEMA-HEAVY $21.8M
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Newark Fire Department Rescue 1, NJ (+ 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 OK department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Tulsa, OK
FDID
72009

FEMA Grant History

$0
Cumulative funding (FY2010–2021)
0
Awards
Year Award Amount
2021 EMW-2021-FG-01230 $549,053.18
2020 EMW-2020-FF-00997 $11,978,998.79
2017 EMW2015FH00458 $2,781,270
2017 EMW2016FO06195 $404,710
2017 EMW-2017-FO-06270 $229,275
2017 EMW2016FH00487 $-755,412.01
2011 EMW-2011-FH-0112 $5,964,840
2011 EMW-2011-FO-0913 $183,852
2010 EMW-2010-FO-0918 $445,866

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

Staffing vs the Oklahoma average

How Tulsa Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Oklahoma. In-state it ranks #2 of 513 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #35 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 5983% above the state average
Stations
30
State fire deaths/yr
68
OK departments
1,049

County roster weight

Tulsa Fire Department carries 71.1% of Tulsa County HIFLD personnel

Among 24 listed departments (1,027 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 33% of the county count. County / state rollup.

4.11 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (30 stations / 730 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Newark Fire Department Rescue 1, NJ (+0 personnel).

Nearby Departments

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Nationwide career peers near 730 personnel

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