Department profile
Career (Paid)Wilmington Fire Department
Wilmington, DE · New Castle County. Wilmington Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 7 stations and 177 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 177
- Total personnel
- 7
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Wilmington Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Delaware average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +172%
- vs. Delaware average
- 7
- 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.
Wilmington Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Wilmington, DE (New Castle County), with 7 stations and 177 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #294 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #294 of 22,440
- DE personnel rank #4 of 51
- 3.95 stations per 100 personnel
- 23 other listed departments in New Castle County
Wilmington Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
177 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 10100 · Wilmington Fire Department, DE 177 personnel · 7 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 177
- STA-MULTI 7 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #294
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Sioux Falls Fire…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Sioux Falls Fire Rescue, SD (+ 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 DE department.
- Wilmington (this dept) 177
- High West York, PA 177
- Near Sioux Falls Fire…, SD 177
- Low Waltham, MA 176
- Near Kent, WA 176
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Wilmington, DE
- County
- New Castle County
- FDID
- 10100
Staffing vs the Delaware average
How Wilmington Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Delaware. In-state it ranks #4 of 51 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #294 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 7
- State fire deaths/yr
- 11
- DE departments
- 80
County roster fringe
Wilmington Fire Department is 7.5% of New Castle County roster mass
The county lists 31 departments totaling 2,350 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 71% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.95 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (7 stations / 177 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Sioux Falls Fire Rescue, SD (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 177 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every DE department.