Department profile

Career (Paid)

Zanesville Fire Department - Central Station

Zanesville, OH · Muskingum County. Zanesville Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 47 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

47
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Zanesville Fire Department - Central Station pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Ohio average.

Top 20%
national personnel size
+57%
vs. Ohio average
3
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
24/100
Zanesville Fire Department - Central Station

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.

Staffing capacity D
15.7 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
47 personnel · 3 stations

Zanesville Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department serving Zanesville, OH (Muskingum County), with 3 stations and 47 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,540 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #4,540 of 22,440
  • OH personnel rank #194 of 1,108
  • 6.38 stations per 100 personnel
  • 15 other listed departments in Muskingum County

Zanesville Fire Department - Central Station vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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 60023 · Zanesville Fire Department - Central Station, OH 47 personnel · 3 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 47
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #4,540
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Camp Robinson Vol…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Camp Robinson Volunteer Fire Department-Dod, AR (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Zanesville, OH
FDID
60023

Staffing vs the Ohio average

How Zanesville Fire Department - Central Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #194 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,540 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 57% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
138
OH departments
1,501

County roster fringe

Zanesville Fire Department - Central Station is 8.9% of Muskingum County roster mass

The county lists 17 departments totaling 526 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 76% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.38 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 47 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Camp Robinson Volunteer Fire Department-Dod, AR (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

Nationwide career peers near 47 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.