https://www.insurancejournal.com/blogs/corelogic/2024/04/09/768732.htm - more than 53,000 stations - maybe this info is from ISO
this is a slightly different number than the USFA number On Sun, Dec 25, 2022 at 2:37 PM Peteri Szerlagi <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://apps.usfa.fema.gov/registry/summary#d > > that is their estimate > > not too shabby - I am sure they are working to up that number > > 27,000 FDs are listed > > 68% of the departments have 1 station. > 17% have 2 stations. > 15% have 3 or more stations. > 52,000 stations are registered > > add another 10% to that and you get the magic number of - 57,000 fire > stations in the USA > > there are just over 1 million firefighters - that is 1 in 250 by my > calculation > > "Of the active firefighting personnel, 34% were career firefighters, > 53% were volunteer firefighters, and 12% were paid per call > firefighters." - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/massfire/CAFXWwKY-t_J5VpjqQ9u8fXZisHhtypNAUBRZRaG%3Dd%2BmhhCFbig%40mail.gmail.com.
