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.
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.
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.
- Zanesville Fire D… (this dept) 47
- High Green Country Fir…, OK 47
- Near Camp Robinson Vol…, AR 47
- Near Elsmere Fire Prot…, KY 47
- Near Dushore Volunteer…, PA 47
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Zanesville, OH
- County
- Muskingum County
- 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.
- 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).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 47 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.