Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderWatertown Fire Department
Watertown, MA · Middlesex County. Watertown Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 94 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.
- 94
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Watertown Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Massachusetts average.
- Top 5%
- national personnel size
- +169%
- vs. Massachusetts average
- 3
- stations
- $1,242,205
- 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.
Watertown Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Watertown, MA (Middlesex County), with 3 stations and 94 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,090 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,242,205.
- National personnel rank #1,090 of 22,440
- MA personnel rank #34 of 326
- 3.19 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 65 other listed departments in Middlesex County
Watertown Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
94 Top 5% higher than 95% 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 17314 · Watertown Fire Department, MA 94 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 94
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,090
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ New Hackensack Fi…
- FEMA-MID $1.2M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: New Hackensack Fire District, NY (+ 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 MA department.
- Watertown (this dept) 94
- High Paulding County F…, GA 94
- Near New Hackensack Fi…, NY 94
- Near Lancaster, OH 94
- Near Lawrence Road Fir…, NJ 94
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Watertown, MA
- County
- Middlesex County
- FDID
- 17314
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FG-04738 | $181,818 |
| 2016 | EMW2015FO00837 | $221,637 |
| 2014 | EMW2013FH00678 | $652,000 |
| 2014 | EMW2013FO04017 | $186,750 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Massachusetts average
How Watertown Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Massachusetts. In-state it ranks #34 of 326 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,090 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 51
- MA departments
- 568
County roster fringe
Watertown Fire Department is 2.5% of Middlesex County roster mass
The county lists 95 departments totaling 3,724 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 99% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.19 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 94 roster).
Photo-finish peer: New Hackensack Fire District, NY (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 94 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MA department.