| Fire department | City | County | Career firefighters | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indianapolis Fire Department | Indianapolis | Marion | 1,200 | Official site |
| Fort Wayne Fire Department | Fort Wayne | Allen | 352 | Official site |
| Evansville Fire Department | Evansville | Vanderburgh | 273 | Official site |
| City of South Bend Indiana Fire Department | South Bend | St Joseph | 256 | Official site |
| Gary Fire Department | Gary | Lake | 200 | Official site |
| Hammond Fire Department | Hammond | Lake | 180 | — |
| Pike Township Fire Department | Indianapolis | Marion | 157 | — |
| Carmel Fire Department | Carmel | Hamilton | 155 | Official site |
| Washington Township Fire Department | Indianapolis | Marion | 155 | Official site |
| Terre Haute Fire Department | Terre Haute | Vigo | 151 | — |
| Lafayette Fire Department | Lafayette | Tippecanoe | 145 | — |
| Wayne Township Fire Department | Indianapolis | Marion | 145 | Official site |
| Noblesville Fire Department | Noblesville | Hamilton | 144 | Official site |
| Fishers Fire & Emergency Services | Fishers | Hamilton | 131 | Official site |
| Elkhart Fire Department | Elkhart | Elkhart | 124 | Official site |
| Mishawaka Fire Department | Mishawaka | St Joseph | 122 | Official site |
| Lawrence Township Fire Department | Indianapolis | Marion | 112 | — |
| Bloomington Fire Department | Bloomington | Monroe | 111 | Official site |
| Muncie Fire Department | Muncie | Delaware | 110 | Official site |
| Anderson Fire Department | Anderson | Madison | 109 | Official site |
| Warren Township Fire Department | Indianapolis | Marion | 105 | — |
| Columbus Fire Department | Columbus | Bartholomew | 95 | Official site |
| Jeffersonville Fire Department | Jeffersonville | Clark | 92 | — |
| Kokomo Fire Department | Kokomo | Howard | 90 | Official site |
| City of Lawrence Fire Department | Lawrence | Marion | 88 | Official site |
| New Albany Fire Department | New Albany | Floyd | 87 | — |
| Monroe Fire Protection District | Bloomington | Monroe | 85 | Official site |
| Richmond Fire Department | Richmond | Wayne | 84 | Official site |
| Plainfield Fire Territory | Plainfield | Hendricks | 83 | Official site |
| Michigan City Fire Department | Michigan City | La Porte | 81 | Official site |
| Franklin Township Fire Department | Indianapolis | Marion | 79 | — |
| Clay Fire Territory | South Bend | St Joseph | 78 | Official site |
| City of Westfield Fire Department | Westfield | Hamilton | 77 | Official site |
| East Chicago Fire Department | East Chicago | Lake | 76 | Official site |
| Valparaiso Fire Department | Valparaiso | Porter | 73 | Official site |
| Brownsburg Fire Territory | Brownsburg | Hendricks | 71 | Official site |
| Decatur Township Fire Department | Indianapolis | Marion | 70 | Official site |
| Washington Township/Avon Fire Department | Avon | Hendricks | 65 | Official site |
| Shelbyville Fire Department | Shelbyville | Shelby | 63 | Official site |
| Greenwood Fire Department | Greenwood | Johnson | 62 | Official site |
| Portage Fire Department | Portage | Porter | 62 | Official site |
| Marion Fire Department | Marion | Grant | 60 | Official site |
| Grissom Air Force Reserve Base Fire Department | Grissom Arb | Miami | 55 | — |
| White River Township Fire Department | Greenwood | Johnson | 55 | Official site |
| Crown Point Fire Department | Crown Point | Lake | 53 | Official site |
| Hobart Fire Department | Hobart | Lake | 53 | Official site |
| Goshen Fire Department | Goshen | Elkhart | 51 | — |
| Sugar Creek Township Fire Department | New Palestine | Hancock | 50 | Official site |
| West Lafayette Fire Department | West Lafayette | Tippecanoe | 50 | Official site |
| Greenfield Fire Territory | Greenfield | Hancock | 49 | Official site |
| Franklin Fire Department | Franklin | Johnson | 48 | — |
| Crawfordsville Fire Department | Crawfordsville | Montgomery | 46 | — |
| La Porte Fire Department | La Porte | La Porte | 45 | — |
| Lebanon Fire Department | Lebanon | Boone | 45 | Official site |
| Seymour Fire Department | Seymour | Jackson | 43 | Official site |
| Warsaw - Wayne Fire Territory | Warsaw | Kosciusko | 41 | Official site |
| New Chapel Fire Company | New Albany | Floyd | 40 | — |
| Zionsville Fire Department | Zionsville | Boone | 40 | Official site |
| Frankfort Fire Department | Frankfort | Clinton | 39 | Official site |
| Indianapolis Int'l Airport Fire Department | Indianapolis | Marion | 39 | — |
| Connersville Fire Department | Connersville | Fayette | 38 | Official site |
| Vincennes City Fire Department | Vincennes | Knox | 38 | Official site |
| Bedford Fire Department | Bedford | Lawrence | 37 | — |
| Bargersville Community Fire Protection District | Franklin | Johnson | 36 | Official site |
| Huntington Fire Department | Huntington | Huntington | 35 | Official site |
| Speedway Fire Department | Speedway | Marion | 35 | Official site |
| Beech Grove Fire Department | Beech Grove | Marion | 33 | Official site |
| Clarksville Fire Department | Clarksville | Clark | 33 | — |
| Honey Creek Department of Fire & Rescue, Inc. | Terre Haute | Vigo | 33 | Official site |
| New Castle Fire Department | New Castle | Henry | 32 | — |
| Wabash Fire Department | Wabash | Wabash | 32 | Official site |
| Peru Fire Department | Peru | Miami | 31 | Official site |
| Greensburg Fire Department | Greensburg | Decatur | 30 | Official site |
| Penn Township Fire Department | Mishawaka | St Joseph | 29 | Official site |
| Purdue University Fire Department | West Lafayette | Tippecanoe | 29 | Official site |
| Georgetown Township Fire Protection District | Georgetown | Floyd | 28 | Official site |
| Danville Fire Department | Danville | Hendricks | 26 | Official site |
| Scott Township Fire Department | Evansville | Vanderburgh | 25 | Official site |
| Tri Township Fire and Rescue | Sellersburg | Clark | 25 | — |
| Martinsville Fire Department | Martinsville | Morgan | 24 | — |
| Auburn Fire Department | Auburn | Dekalb | 23 | Official site |
| Buck Creek Township Fire Department | Greenfield | Hancock | 23 | Official site |
| Monticello Fire Department | Monticello | White | 23 | Official site |
| Cleveland Township Fire Department | Elkhart | Elkhart | 22 | — |
| Princeton Fire Territory | Princeton | Gibson | 22 | — |
| Southwest Central Fire Territory | South Bend | St Joseph | 22 | Official site |
| Brown County EMT Association, Inc. | Nashville | Brown | 20 | — |
| Elwood Fire Department | Elwood | Madison | 20 | Official site |
| Brown Township Fire- Rescue | Mooresville | Morgan | 18 | Official site |
| Rushville Fire Department | Rushville | Rush | 18 | Official site |
| Schererville Fire Department | Schererville | Lake | 18 | Official site |
| Boonville Fire Department | Boonville | Warrick | 17 | Official site |
| Chesterton Fire Department | Chesterton | Porter | 17 | Official site |
| Greencastle Fire Department | Greencastle | Putnam | 17 | — |
| Pittsboro Fire Department | Pittsboro | Hendricks | 17 | Official site |
| St. Joseph County Airport Authority Department of Public Safety | South Bend | St Joseph | 17 | — |
| Washington Fire Department | Washington | Daviess | 17 | Official site |
| Angola Fire Department | Angola | Steuben | 16 | Official site |
| Concord Township Fire Department | Elkhart | Elkhart | 16 | — |
| New Carlisle Fire Department | New Carlisle | St Joseph | 16 | Official site |
| Turkey Creek Fire Territory | Syracuse | Kosciusko | 16 | Official site |
| University of Notre Dame Fire Department | Notre Dame | St Joseph | 16 | Official site |
| Whiting Fire Department | Whiting | Lake | 16 | Official site |
| Mooresville Fire Department | Mooresville | Morgan | 15 | Official site |
| Osolo Township Fire Department | Elkhart | Elkhart | 15 | — |
| Sellersburg Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. | Sellersburg | Clark | 15 | — |
| Brazil City Fire Department | Brazil | Clay | 14 | — |
| East Madison Fire Territory | Chesterfield | Madison | 14 | Official site |
| Alexandria Fire Department | Alexandria | Madison | 13 | — |
| Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Fire Management | Porter | Porter | 13 | — |
| New Haven Adams Township Fire Department | New Haven | Allen | 13 | Official site |
| Northeast Allen County Fire & EMS | Grabill | Allen | 13 | — |
| Plymouth Fire Department | Plymouth | Marshall | 13 | Official site |
| Saint John Fire Department | St John | Lake | 13 | Official site |
| Tipton Fire Department | Tipton | Tipton | 13 | Official site |
| Bristol Fire Department | Bristol | Elkhart | 12 | — |
| Columbia City Fire Department | Columbia City | Whitley | 12 | Official site |
| Indiana Air National 122 CES/CEF | Fort Wayne | Allen | 12 | — |
| Ellettsville Fire Department | Bloomington | Monroe | 11 | Official site |
| Harrison Township Fire Department | Corydon | Harrison | 11 | — |
| Kendallville Fire Department | Kendallville | Noble | 11 | Official site |
| Lafayette Township Fire Department | Floyds Knobs | Floyd | 11 | Official site |
| Sheridan Fire Department | Sheridan | Hamilton | 11 | Official site |
| Cedar Lake Fire Department | Cedar Lake | Lake | 10 | Official site |
| Decatur Fire Department | Decatur | Adams | 10 | Official site |
| Harrison Township Volunteer Fire Company, Inc | Columbus | Bartholomew | 10 | — |
| Madison Township Fire Department | Camby | Morgan | 10 | Official site |
| Rochester Fire Department | Rochester | Fulton | 10 | — |
| Batesville Fire & EMS | Batesville | Ripley | 9 | Official site |
| IDNR-Division of Forestry | Martinsville | Morgan | 9 | Official site |
| North Vernon Fire Department | North Vernon | Jennings | 9 | — |
| Patoka Township Fire & Rescue | Princeton | Gibson | 9 | — |
| Portland Fire Department | Portland | Jay | 9 | Official site |
| Southwest Allen County Fire Protection District | Yoder | Allen | 9 | Official site |
| Sullivan Fire Department | Sullivan | Sullivan | 9 | — |
| Union City Indiana Fire Department | Union City | Randolph | 9 | — |
| Winchester Fire Department | Winchester | Randolph | 9 | — |
| City of Linton Fire Department | Linton | Greene | 8 | Official site |
| Nappanee Fire Department | Nappanee | Elkhart | 8 | Official site |
| Salem Fire Department | Salem | Washington | 8 | — |
| Vincennes Township Fire Protection District | Vincennes | Knox | 8 | Official site |
| Washington Township Fire Department | Martinsville | Morgan | 8 | — |
| Bluffton Fire Department | Bluffton | Wells | 7 | — |
| Harris Township Fire Department | Granger | St Joseph | 7 | — |
| Hartford City Fire Department | Hartford City | Blackford | 7 | — |
| Huntertown-Perry Township Fire Department | Huntertown | Allen | 7 | Official site |
| Lawrenceburg Fire Department | Lawrenceburg | Dearborn | 7 | — |
| Mount Vernon Fire Department | Mount Vernon | Posey | 7 | — |
| Warren Township Fire Department | South Bend | St Joseph | 7 | Official site |
| Cicero Fire Department | Cicero | Hamilton | 6 | Official site |
| East Columbus Independent Fire | Columbus | Bartholomew | 6 | Official site |
| Middlebury Fire Department | Middlebury | Elkhart | 6 | — |
| Otterbein Area Volunteer Fire & Rescue | Otterbein | Benton | 6 | — |
| South Haven-Portage Township Fire Department - | Valparaiso | Porter | 6 | Official site |
| Jackson Township Fire Department | Arcadia | Hamilton | 5 | — |
| Utica Township Volunteer Fire Department | Jeffersonville | Clark | 5 | — |
| Baugo Fire Department | Elkhart | Elkhart | 4 | Official site |
| Edinburgh Fire & Rescue | Edinburgh | Johnson | 4 | Official site |
| Ligonier Fire Department | Ligonier | Noble | 4 | — |
| McCutchanville Fire Department | Evansville | Vanderburgh | 4 | Official site |
| Riley Fire Department | Terre Haute | Vigo | 4 | Official site |
| Rockville-Adams Township Fire Department | Rockville | Parke | 4 | — |
| White River Township Volunteer Fire Department | Winchester | Randolph | 4 | — |
| Black Diamond Fire Department | Clinton | Vermillion | 3 | — |
| Chester Township Fire Department | North Manchester | Wabash | 3 | — |
| Cicero Township Fire Department | Tipton | Tipton | 3 | Official site |
| City of Clinton Fire Department | Clinton | Vermillion | 3 | — |
| Dunkirk Fire Department | Dunkirk | Jay | 3 | — |
| Lakeville Fire Department | Lakeville | St Joseph | 3 | — |
| Letts Community Volunteer Fire Department | Greensburg | Decatur | 3 | — |
| North Manchester Fire Department | North Manchester | Wabash | 3 | Official site |
| Sugar Creek Fire Department, Inc. | West Terre Haute | Vigo | 3 | Official site |
| Wea Township Community Fire Department | Lafayette | Tippecanoe | 3 | Official site |
| Bremen Fire Department | Bremen | Marshall | 2 | Official site |
| Bright Volunteer Fire Company, Inc. | Lawrenceburg | Dearborn | 2 | — |
| Burns Harbor Fire Department | Burns Harbor | Porter | 2 | Official site |
| Cass County Emergency Management Agency | Logansport | Cass | 2 | Official site |
| Charlestown Volunteer Fire Department | Charlestown | Clark | 2 | Official site |
| German Township Volunteer Fire Department | Evansville | Vanderburgh | 2 | Official site |
| New Goshen Fire & Rescue | New Goshen | Vigo | 2 | — |
| Prairieton Fire Department | Terre Haute | Vigo | 2 | — |
| Putnamville Correctional Facility Fire Department | Greencastle | Putnam | 2 | — |
| Springs Valley Fire Department | French Lick | Orange | 2 | Official site |
| St Joseph Township Fire Department | Fort Wayne | Allen | 2 | Official site |
| Wabash Township Volunteer Fire Department | West Lafayette | Tippecanoe | 2 | Official site |
| Eaton Volunteer Fire Department | Eaton | Delaware | 1 | Official site |
| Elkhart Township Fire Department | Goshen | Elkhart | 1 | — |
| Fountaintown Fire Department | Fountaintown | Shelby | 1 | — |
| German Township Fire Department | South Bend | St Joseph | 1 | — |
| Greendale Fire Department | Greendale | Dearborn | 1 | Official site |
| Highland Fire Department | Highland | Lake | 1 | Official site |
| Jasper Volunteer Fire Department | Jasper | Dubois | 1 | — |
| Jefferson Township Fire Department | Goshen | Elkhart | 1 | — |
| Munster Fire Department | Munster | Lake | 1 | Official site |
| Ohio Township Volunteer Fire Department | Newburgh | Warrick | 1 | — |
| Pleasant Township Fire Department | Laketon | Wabash | 1 | — |
| Porter Fire Department | Porter | Porter | 1 | Official site |
| Posey Township Volunteer Fire Department | Patriot | Switzerland | 1 | — |
| Rensselaer Volunteer Fire Department | Rensselaer | Jasper | 1 | Official site |
| Rushville Township Volunteer Fire Department | Rushville | Rush | 1 | Official site |
| Scottsburg Volunteer Fire Department | Scottsburg | Scott | 1 | — |
| Topeka Volunteer Fire Department | Topeka | LaGrange | 1 | Official site |
Largest first by career firefighters, as each employer reports it to its federal registry.
Source: U.S. Fire Administration (FEMA), National Fire Department Registry. Data captured September 30, 2026.