Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderWaterford Township Fire Department
Waterford, MI · Oakland County. Waterford Township Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 82 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.
- 82
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Waterford Township Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Michigan average.
- Top 6%
- national personnel size
- +273%
- vs. Michigan average
- 5
- 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.
Waterford Township Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Waterford, MI (Oakland County), with 5 stations and 82 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,408 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,408 of 22,440
- MI personnel rank #22 of 1,008
- 6.10 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 51 other listed departments in Oakland County
Waterford Township Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
82 Top 6% higher than 94% 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 06342 · Waterford Township Fire Department, MI 82 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 82
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,408
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cleveland
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Cleveland Fire Department, TN (+ 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 MI department.
- Waterford Township (this dept) 82
- High Turn of River, CT 82
- Near Cleveland, TN 82
- Near Gainesville, GA 82
- Near Westbrook, CT 82
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Waterford, MI
- County
- Oakland County
- FDID
- 06342
Staffing vs the Michigan average
How Waterford Township Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Michigan. In-state it ranks #22 of 1,008 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,408 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 112
- MI departments
- 1,274
County roster fringe
Waterford Township Fire Department is 3.4% of Oakland County roster mass
The county lists 73 departments totaling 2,378 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 96% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
6.10 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 82 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Cleveland Fire Department, TN (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 82 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MI department.