Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderWoonsocket Fire Department
Woonsocket, RI · Providence County. Woonsocket Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 131 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.
- 131
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Woonsocket Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Rhode Island average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +245%
- vs. Rhode Island average
- 5
- stations
- $4,628,648
- 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.
Woonsocket Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Woonsocket, RI (Providence County), with 5 stations and 131 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #559 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $4,628,648.
- National personnel rank #559 of 22,440
- RI personnel rank #4 of 66
- 3.82 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 33 other listed departments in Providence County
Woonsocket Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
131 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 03900 · Woonsocket Fire Department, RI 131 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 131
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #559
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Martinez-Columbia…
- FEMA-MID $4.6M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Martinez-Columbia Fire Rescue, GA (+ 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 RI department.
- Woonsocket (this dept) 131
- High Southwest Polk Co…, OR 131
- Near Martinez-Columbia…, GA 131
- Near Johnson County Fi…, MO 131
- Near Fredonia, NY 131
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Woonsocket, RI
- County
- Providence County
- FDID
- 03900
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FG-01479 | $262,681.81 |
| 2023 | EMW-2023-FG-01795 | $251,035.45 |
| 2022 | EMW-2022-FG-02948 | $424,785.36 |
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FF-01554 | $1,555,806.4 |
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FG-00137 | $224,201.06 |
| 2018 | EMW-2018-FO-03454 | $296,364 |
| 2017 | EMW2016FO00487 | $377,055 |
| 2017 | EMW2016FH00385 | $0 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FH-00164 | $0 |
| 2016 | EMW2015FV00476 | $681,819 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Rhode Island average
How Woonsocket Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Rhode Island. In-state it ranks #4 of 66 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #559 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 9
- RI departments
- 111
County roster fringe
Woonsocket Fire Department is 5.8% of Providence County roster mass
The county lists 46 departments totaling 2,266 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 61% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.82 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 131 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Martinez-Columbia Fire Rescue, GA (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 131 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every RI department.