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Top 25 Rural fire departments based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 1,572 rural fire departments headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 18,512 professional contacts across them, including 5,635 with verified work emails. Houston is the largest hub.
This list covers rural fire departments headquartered in the United States, 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 21, 2026.
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 rural fire departments based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 663 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Chicago Fire Department (CFD) promotes fire safety, provides emergency care, and extinguishes fires.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 408 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Charlotte Fire is a full spectrum organization providing fire protection, emergency medical services, technical rescue, hazardous materials response, emergency management, fire…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 228 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The San Bernardino County Fire Protection District is a community-based, all hazard emergency services provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 140 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PF & R is Oregon’s largest fire and emergency services provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The El Paso Fire Department is a full-service fire department.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Boone County Fire Protection District is the largest volunteer fire department in the State of Missouri.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District provides all-risk fire, rescue and emergency medical services to the communities of Alamo, Blackhawk, the Town of Danville, Diablo…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Chesapeake Fire Department is a progressive organization of over 428 members serving the citizens of the City of Chesapeake.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Central Pierce Fire & Rescue proudly serves a growing and diverse community in Pierce County, Washington.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than 50 years, Paramedic Services of Illinois, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One is committed to providing professional, compassionate emergency services to our community, with a focus on delivering “WOW” customer service that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Alameda County Fire Department (ACFD) provides all-risk emergency services to the unincorporated areas of Alameda County (excluding Fairview), the cities of San Leandro…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Osceola County Fire Rescue & EMS provides structural and wildland fire suppression, fire prevention, EMS-ALS, search and rescue, and HazMat response services to the Osceola County…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The main function of the Fire Department is to protect life, property, and the assets of the City from any emergency situation through preparedness, prevention, public education…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “MADISON FIRE DEPARTMENT is a public safety company based out of 120 N MARKET ST, MADISON, North Carolina, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CARS is a volunteer rescue squad with approximately 100 active members.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hall County Fire Rescue protects 429 square miles, with a population of over on 2015 U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Atascocita Volunteer Fire Department (AVFD) is an all hazards, emergency response organization located in Northeast Harris County in Texas, U.S.A.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 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: rural 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 rural fire departments.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of rural fire departments, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name rural 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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Rural fire departments based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 1,572 companies.
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 rural 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “rural 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 rural 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 rural fire departments, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 5,635 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 21, 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.
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 rural 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 rural fire departments are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 1,572 rural fire departments headquartered in the United States 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?
Chicago Fire Department, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most rural fire departments?
Houston leads with 6 headquartered companies, followed by Pittsburgh (6) and Elmhurst (5).
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 5,635 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,572 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 21, 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.
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