Department profile
Career (Paid)Winter Haven Fire Department
Winter Haven, FL · Polk County. Winter Haven Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 55 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 55
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Winter Haven Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Florida average.
- Top 15%
- national personnel size
- +96%
- vs. Florida average
- 3
- stations
- $2,193,948
- 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.
Winter Haven Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Winter Haven, FL (Polk County), with 3 stations and 55 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,298 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $2,193,948.
- National personnel rank #3,298 of 22,440
- FL personnel rank #90 of 352
- 5.45 stations per 100 personnel
- 15 other listed departments in Polk County
Winter Haven Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
55 Top 15% higher than 85% 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 05142 · Winter Haven Fire Department, FL 55 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 55
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #3,298
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Sherman Volunteer
- FEMA-MID $2.2M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Sherman Volunteer Fire Department, CT (+ 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 FL department.
- Winter Haven (this dept) 55
- High Stony Hill Volunt…, CT 55
- Near Sherman Volunteer, CT 55
- Near Selfridge Air Nat…, MI 55
- Near Machias Volunteer…, NY 55
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Winter Haven, FL
- County
- Polk County
- FDID
- 05142
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FF-02168 | $2,193,948 |
| 2014 | EMW2013FH00275 | $0 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Florida average
How Winter Haven Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Florida. In-state it ranks #90 of 352 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,298 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 206
- FL departments
- 758
County roster geometry
Polk County HIFLD mix around Winter Haven Fire Department
Polk County: 19 departments, 447 personnel (6 volunteer / 7 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 53% of departments. County / state rollup.
5.45 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 55 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Sherman Volunteer Fire Department, CT (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 55 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every FL department.