Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderAlabaster Fire and Rescue Service
Alabaster, AL · Shelby County. Alabaster Fire and Rescue Service is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 54 total personnel. The department also provides EMS services. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 54
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Alabaster Fire and Rescue Service pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Alabama average.
- Top 15%
- national personnel size
- +218%
- vs. Alabama average
- 3
- stations
National percentile ranks this department's personnel headcount against every listable U.S. department with reported staffing; the state comparison uses the same personnel figure against its own state's average. Both feed the verdict sentence and the chips above.
A staffing, equipment, EMS-integration, and federal-grant-funding composite benchmarked against every other USFA-registered department nationally, not a safety rating, response-time measure, or comparison of fire risk. Dimensions with no data on file are excluded and their weight redistributed, never counted as zero.
Alabaster Fire and Rescue Service is a Career (Paid) department serving Alabaster, AL (Shelby County), with 3 stations and 54 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,304 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,304 of 22,440
- AL personnel rank #39 of 733
- 5.56 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 30 other listed departments in Shelby County
Alabaster Fire and Rescue Service vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
54 Top 15% higher than 85% of 22,440 departments
Listable U.S. fire departments, banded by total personnel
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Source HIFLD fire-station registry · 2026-09-06
Dispatch plate
Sheet 05804 · Alabaster Fire and Rescue Service, AL 54 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 54
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #3,304
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Central Valley Fi…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Central Valley Fire District, MT (+ 0 personnel)
Career/paid HIFLD roster counts, station rows, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer, and FEMA AFG/SAFER book for this FDID, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every AL department.
- Alabaster Fire an… (this dept) 54
- High Birmingham Fire D…, MI 54
- Near Central Valley Fi…, MT 54
- Near Conquest Fire Com…, NY 54
- Near Hugo Volunteer Fi…, NC 54
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Alabaster, AL
- County
- Shelby County
- FDID
- 05804
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | EMW2006FF04261 | $-13,162 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Alabama average
How Alabaster Fire and Rescue Service's personnel count compares to the typical department in Alabama. In-state it ranks #39 of 733 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,304 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 84
- AL departments
- 1,302
County roster fringe
Alabaster Fire and Rescue Service is 9.1% of Shelby County roster mass
The county lists 40 departments totaling 591 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 95% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.56 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 54 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Central Valley Fire District, MT (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 54 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AL department.