Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Paid fire departments worldwide
RevenueBase identified 846 paid fire departments worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 27,441 professional contacts across them, including 6,263 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Rochester the largest hub.
This list covers paid fire departments worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for paid fire departments follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest paid fire departments worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 665 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Service Départemental d'Incendie et de Secours de Seine-et-Marne (Sdis 77) est un acteur majeur de la sécurité, animé par la passion et l’engagement!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 663 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Chicago Fire Department (CFD) promotes fire safety, provides emergency care, and extinguishes fires.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 500 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Service départemental d’incendie et de secours de la Seine-Maritime (Sdis 76) a été créé en 1945, mais c’est la loi dite «loi de départementalisation», votée en 1996 qui l’a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 408 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “South Metro Fire Rescue (SMFR) is committed to helping the community it serves, which spans residents, 30 stations, and nearly 300 square miles across Arapahoe, Douglas, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 387 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Les Sapeurs-Pompiers de l'Hérault, toujours là quand il faut!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 355 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Unified Fire Authority is Utah’s largest fire agency, serving over residents in the cities of Alta, Cottonwood Heights, Draper, Herriman, Holladay, Riverton, Taylorsville and the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 281 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le service départemental d’incendie et de secours de la Haute Garonne (SDIS 31), est l’établissement public qui gère l’ensemble des Sapeurs-pompiers du département et de leurs…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 274 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Département du Gard est l’un des tous premiers départements de France sur le plan opérationnel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 269 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le SIS 67 est un établissement public autonome.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 256 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue provides fire protection and emergency medical services to approximately 542,524 residents in one of the fastest growing regions in Oregon.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 223 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le SDIS de la Savoie est un établissement public en charge, sur le territoire de la Savoie, de la prévention, de la protection et de la lutte contre les incendies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 215 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The San Bernardino County Fire Protection District is an all-risk/full-service fire department committed to providing the highest level of service in the most efficient and cost…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 210 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Contra Costa County Fire Protection District operates with a highly trained team of more than 670 firefighters and professional staff, responding from 37 strategically placed fire…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 202 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Service Départemental d'Incendie et de Secours de Meurthe-et-Moselle regroupe l'ensemble des sapeurs-pompiers volontaires (SPV) et professionels (SPP), le service de santé et…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 199 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Service Départemental d’Incendie et de Secours de la Haute-Savoie (SDIS 74) est un établissement public administratif départemental, composé de sapeurs-pompiers professionnels…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 163 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dans chaque département, les sapeurs-pompiers dépendent d’un établissement public : le Service départemental d’incendie et de secours (SDIS).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 158 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Calgary Fire Department is dedicated to the safety of Calgarians.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 151 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dans chaque département, les sapeurs-pompiers dépendent d’un établissement public : le Service départemental d’incendie et de secours (SDIS).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 151 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Service départemental d'incendie et de secours de l'Aude - SDIS11” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 142 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Basé à Blois, le Service Départemental d’Incendie et de Secours de Loir-et-Cher (SDIS 41) regroupe 60 personnels administratifs techniques et spécialisés, plus de 1 629…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 132 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Santa Barbara County Fire Department serves and safeguards the community from the impacts of fires, medical emergencies, environmental emergencies, and natural disasters…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Puget Sound Fire exists to maintain and enhance the quality of life within its boundaries by protecting life, property, and the environment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 124 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The San José Fire Department (SJFD) is committed to serving the community by protecting life, property, and the environment through prevention and response.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PF & R is Oregon’s largest fire and emergency services provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The El Paso Fire Department is a full-service fire department.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: paid fire departments. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names paid fire departments.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of paid fire departments, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name paid fire departments. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Paid fire departments worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among paid fire departments, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for paid fire departments are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “paid fire departments”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names paid fire departments), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among paid fire departments, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 6,263 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Paid fire departments by location
2 lists · largest firstEvery Paid fire departments list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names paid fire departments, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many paid fire departments are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 846 paid fire departments worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Sdis 77, headquartered in Melun, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most paid fire departments?
The United States leads with 623 companies, followed by France (31). Every paid fire departments list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most paid fire departments?
Rochester leads with 4 headquartered companies, followed by Durham (3) and Marysville (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 6,263 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 846 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.