Top 10 US States by Total Fire Department Personnel
NFIRS state-level rollup ranking US states by total fire-service personnel across career, volunteer, and combination departments. Rendered server-side from the live PlainFireData state_stats table.
Research
Original Fire-Data Research
Original data research from the PlainFireData editorial team. Every page is rendered server-side from a live SELECT against the portal database; no numbers are hardcoded.
Top 10 US Fire Departments by AFG/SAFER Grant Funding
Department-level rollup of federal AFG (Assistance to Firefighters) and SAFER grant awards. Live SSR query — reflects the most recent FEMA grant disclosure ingest.
Top 10 US States by Annual Fire Deaths
USFA/NFIRS state-level rollup ranking US states by annual fire-death count and per-capita rate. Rendered server-side from the live state_stats table.
Top 10 US States by Volunteer Fire Department Share
Which US states rely most on volunteer fire departments — the state-level share of departments that are primarily volunteer, rendered live from the state_stats table.
Top 10 US States by Number of Career Fire Departments
US states ranked by the count of career (full-time paid) fire departments — a live state_stats rollup contrasting with the volunteer-share ranking.
What makes this research different?
Every figure on these pages is rendered server-side from a live SELECT against the PlainFireData database at request time — nothing is hand-typed or cached as prose. The rankings draw on the HIFLD fire-station registry (DHS/CISA), USFA National Fire Statistics, FEMA AFG/SAFER grant disclosures, and 2023 US Census population estimates, so each result is auditable to the source row. Read the methodology for the full source list and refresh cadence.