Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderWooster Fire Division
Wooster, OH · Wayne County. Wooster Fire Division is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 43 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.
- 43
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Wooster Fire Division pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Ohio average.
- Top 24%
- national personnel size
- +43%
- 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 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.
Wooster Fire Division is a Career (Paid) department serving Wooster, OH (Wayne County), with 2 stations and 43 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,416 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,416 of 22,440
- OH personnel rank #248 of 1,108
- 4.65 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 19 other listed departments in Wayne County
Wooster Fire Division vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
43 Top 24% higher than 76% 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 85031 · Wooster Fire Division, OH 43 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 43
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,416
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ 4th District Volu…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: 4th District Volunteer Fire Department, MS (+ 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.
- Wooster Fire Divi… (this dept) 43
- High Hampton, NH 43
- Near 4th District Volu…, MS 43
- Near Northern Pendleto…, KY 43
- Near Searcy Fire Depar…, AR 43
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Wooster, OH
- County
- Wayne County
- FDID
- 85031
Staffing vs the Ohio average
How Wooster Fire Division's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #248 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,416 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 138
- OH departments
- 1,501
County roster fringe
Wooster Fire Division is 7.2% of Wayne County roster mass
The county lists 22 departments totaling 594 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 91% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.65 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 43 roster).
Photo-finish peer: 4th District Volunteer Fire Department, MS (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 43 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.