Department profile
Career (Paid)Worcester Fire Department
Worcester, MA · Worcester County. Worcester Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 12 stations and 475 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 475
- Total personnel
- 12
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Worcester Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Massachusetts average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +1257%
- vs. Massachusetts average
- 12
- 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.
Worcester Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Worcester, MA (Worcester County), with 12 stations and 475 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #61 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #61 of 22,440
- MA personnel rank #1 of 326
- 2.53 stations per 100 personnel
- 71 other listed departments in Worcester County
Worcester Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
475 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 27348 · Worcester Fire Department, MA 475 personnel · 12 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 475
- STA-MULTI 12 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #61
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Montgomery
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Montgomery Fire Department, AL (+ 3 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 MA department.
- High Colorado Springs…, CO 490
- Near Santa Fe County V…, NM 489
- Near Montgomery, AL 478
- Worcester (this dept) 475
- Low Horry County Fire…, SC 464
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Worcester, MA
- County
- Worcester County
- FDID
- 27348
Staffing vs the Massachusetts average
How Worcester Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Massachusetts. In-state it ranks #1 of 326 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #61 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 12
- State fire deaths/yr
- 51
- MA departments
- 568
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Worcester County
County mix is mostly volunteer (49 volunteer / 10 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
2.53 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (12 stations / 475 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Montgomery Fire Department, AL (+3 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 475 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MA department.