Department profile
Career (Paid)Waynesboro Fire Department
Waynesboro, GA · Burke County. Waynesboro Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 14 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 14
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Waynesboro Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Georgia average.
- 7th pct.
- national personnel size
- -18%
- vs. Georgia average
- 1
- station
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.
Waynesboro Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Waynesboro, GA (Burke County), with 1 station and 14 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #20,974 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #20,974 of 22,440
- GA personnel rank #279 of 328
- 7.14 stations per 100 personnel
- 0 other listed departments in Burke County
Waynesboro Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
14 Top 93% higher than 7% 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 01703 · Waynesboro Fire Department, GA 14 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MICRO 14
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #20,974
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Coppermine Volunt…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Coppermine Volunteer Fire Department, AL (+ 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 GA department.
- Waynesboro (this dept) 14
- High Parkdale, AR 14
- Near Coppermine Volunt…, AL 14
- Near Dafter Township, MI 14
- Near Penn Township, MI 14
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Waynesboro, GA
- County
- Burke County
- FDID
- 01703
Staffing vs the Georgia average
How Waynesboro Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Georgia. In-state it ranks #279 of 328 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #20,974 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 128
- GA departments
- 868
County roster fringe
Waynesboro Fire Department is 9.2% of Burke County roster mass
The county lists 3 departments totaling 152 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 67% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
7.14 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 14 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Coppermine Volunteer Fire Department, AL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nationwide career peers near 14 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every GA department.