Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Willoughby Fire Department

Willoughby, OH · Lake County. Willoughby Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 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
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Willoughby Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Ohio average.

Top 6%
national personnel size
+173%
vs. Ohio average
2
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
PlainFireData Composite Score
84/100
Willoughby Fire Department

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.

Staffing capacity A
41 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
82 personnel · 2 stations

Willoughby Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Willoughby, OH (Lake County), with 2 stations and 82 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,411 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #1,411 of 22,440
  • OH personnel rank #49 of 1,108
  • 2.44 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 17 other listed departments in Lake County

Willoughby 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 43033 · Willoughby Fire Department, OH 82 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 82
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,411
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Sonoma Valley Fir…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Sonoma Valley Fire and Rescue Authority, CA (+ 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 OH department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY CAREER
Location
Willoughby, OH
FDID
43033

Staffing vs the Ohio average

How Willoughby Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #49 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,411 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 173% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
138
OH departments
1,501

County staffing outlier

Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Lake County

County mix is mostly volunteer (10 volunteer / 6 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.

2.44 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 82 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Sonoma Valley Fire and Rescue Authority, CA (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

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Madison Fire District
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Mentor Fire Department
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Nationwide career peers near 82 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.