Department profile
Career (Paid)Waterbury Fire Department
Waterbury, CT · New Haven County. Waterbury Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 10 stations and 286 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 286
- Total personnel
- 10
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Waterbury Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Connecticut average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +615%
- vs. Connecticut average
- 10
- stations
- $10,290,866
- 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.
Waterbury Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Waterbury, CT (New Haven County), with 10 stations and 286 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #127 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $10,290,866.
- National personnel rank #127 of 22,440
- CT personnel rank #4 of 203
- 3.50 stations per 100 personnel
- 34 other listed departments in New Haven County
Waterbury Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
286 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 06240 · Waterbury Fire Department, CT 286 personnel · 10 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 286
- STA-MULTI 10 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #127
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Savannah
- FEMA-HEAVY $10.3M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Savannah Fire Department, GA ( -1 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.
- High Loudoun County De…, VA 287
- Waterbury (this dept) 286
- Low Savannah, GA 285
- Near Cambridge, MA 285
- Near Indian River Coun…, FL 285
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Waterbury, CT
- County
- New Haven County
- FDID
- 06240
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FG-00181 | $180,000 |
| 2022 | EMW-2022-FG-07303 | $274,347.27 |
| 2020 | EMW-2020-FG-16929 | $253,423.52 |
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FG-01135 | $185,157.69 |
| 2018 | EMW-2018-FR-00508 | $299,555 |
| 2017 | EMW2016FH00405 | $2,608,102.22 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FV-00843 | $595,455 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FR-00474 | $198,089 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FO-03225 | $170,073 |
| 2015 | EMW2014FO05464 | $613,282 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Connecticut average
How Waterbury Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Connecticut. In-state it ranks #4 of 203 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #127 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 10
- State fire deaths/yr
- 34
- CT departments
- 418
County roster fringe
Waterbury Fire Department is 8.3% of New Haven County roster mass
The county lists 59 departments totaling 3,458 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 61% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.50 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (10 stations / 286 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Savannah Fire Department, GA (-1 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 286 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CT department.