Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderAuburn Fire Department
Auburn, AL · Lee County. Auburn Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 40 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.
- 40
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Auburn Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount more than double the Alabama average.
- Top 26%
- national personnel size
- +135%
- vs. Alabama average
- 4
- 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.
Auburn Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Auburn, AL (Lee County), with 4 stations and 40 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,848 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,848 of 22,440
- AL personnel rank #79 of 733
- 10.00 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 9 other listed departments in Lee County
Auburn Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
40 Top 26% higher than 74% 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 04301 · Auburn Fire Department, AL 40 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 40
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,848
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Tallahassee Rural…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Tallahassee Rural Fire Protection Association, CO (+ 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.
- Auburn (this dept) 40
- High Maggie Valley Vol…, NC 40
- Near Tallahassee Rural…, CO 40
- Near Decatur, GA 40
- Near Elba Township, MI 40
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Auburn, AL
- County
- Lee County
- FDID
- 04301
Staffing vs the Alabama average
How Auburn Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Alabama. In-state it ranks #79 of 733 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,848 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 84
- AL departments
- 1,302
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Lee County
County mix is mostly volunteer (6 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
10.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 40 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Tallahassee Rural Fire Protection Association, CO (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 40 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AL department.