Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderYonkers Fire Department
Yonkers, NY · Westchester County. Yonkers Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 12 stations and 459 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.
- 459
- Total personnel
- 12
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Yonkers Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the New York average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +993%
- vs. New York average
- 12
- stations
- $15,878,861
- 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.
Yonkers Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Yonkers, NY (Westchester County), with 12 stations and 459 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #64 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $15,878,861.
- National personnel rank #64 of 22,440
- NY personnel rank #2 of 1,368
- 2.61 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 58 other listed departments in Westchester County
Yonkers Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
459 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 60061 · Yonkers Fire Department, NY 459 personnel · 12 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 459
- STA-MULTI 12 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #64
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Greensboro
- FEMA-HEAVY $15.9M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Greensboro Fire Department, NC (+ 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 NY department.
- High Horry County Fire…, SC 464
- Yonkers (this dept) 459
- Near Greensboro, NC 459
- Near Tacoma, WA 455
- Low Minneapolis, MN 445
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Yonkers, NY
- County
- Westchester County
- FDID
- 60061
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FG-03948 | $887,061.81 |
| 2023 | EMW-2023-FG-05201 | $807,545.45 |
| 2022 | EMW-2022-FG-07821 | $987,779.09 |
| 2020 | EMW-2020-FG-01096 | $207,554.57 |
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FF-01581 | $11,580,930 |
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FP-00842 | $203,810 |
| 2014 | EMW2013FO06061 | $452,700 |
| 2013 | EMW2012FO06304 | $495,481 |
| 2011 | EMW2010FH01128 | $-1 |
| 2010 | EMW-2010-FO-0930 | $256,000 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the New York average
How Yonkers Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #2 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #64 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 12
- State fire deaths/yr
- 150
- NY departments
- 2,253
County roster fringe
Yonkers Fire Department is 8.0% of Westchester County roster mass
The county lists 94 departments totaling 5,737 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 78% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.61 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (12 stations / 459 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Greensboro Fire Department, NC (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 459 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NY department.