Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderAshland Fire Department
Ashland, KY · Boyd County. Ashland Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 56 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.
- 56
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Ashland Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Kentucky average.
- Top 13%
- national personnel size
- +167%
- vs. Kentucky average
- 3
- stations
- $948,127
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Ashland Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Ashland, KY (Boyd County), with 3 stations and 56 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,965 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $948,127.
- National personnel rank #2,965 of 22,440
- KY personnel rank #49 of 606
- 5.36 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 8 other listed departments in Boyd County
Ashland Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
56 Top 13% higher than 87% 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 10040 · Ashland Fire Department, KY 56 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 56
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,965
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Jeffersonville
- FEMA-MID $948K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Jeffersonville Fire Department, IN (+ 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 KY department.
- Ashland (this dept) 56
- High Newburyport, MA 56
- Near Jeffersonville, IN 56
- Near Wake Forest, NC 56
- Near North Andover, MA 56
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Ashland, KY
- County
- Boyd County
- FDID
- 10040
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FG-05932 | $349,945.36 |
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FG-05550 | $409,091 |
| 2016 | EMW2015FO04333 | $189,091 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Kentucky average
How Ashland Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Kentucky. In-state it ranks #49 of 606 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,965 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 93
- KY departments
- 981
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Boyd County
County mix is mostly volunteer (6 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
5.36 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 56 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Jeffersonville Fire Department, IN (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 56 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every KY department.