Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderTulsa 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.
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.
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.
- High Portland Fire and…, OR 736
- Tulsa (this dept) 730
- Near Newark Fire Depar…, NJ 730
- Near Birmingham Fire a…, AL 709
- Low Sacramento Metrop…, CA 704
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Tulsa, OK
- County
- Tulsa County
- FDID
- 72009
FEMA Grant History
| 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.
- 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
Nationwide career peers near 730 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OK department.