Department profile
Career (Paid)Bartow County Fire Department
Cartersville, GA · Bartow County. Bartow County Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 13 stations and 113 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 113
- Total personnel
- 13
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Bartow County Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Georgia average.
- Top 3%
- national personnel size
- +565%
- vs. Georgia average
- 13
- 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.
Bartow County Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Cartersville, GA (Bartow County), with 13 stations and 113 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #753 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #753 of 22,440
- GA personnel rank #22 of 328
- 11.50 stations per 100 personnel
- 2 other listed departments in Bartow County
Bartow County Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
113 Top 3% higher than 97% 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 00801 · Bartow County Fire Department, GA 113 personnel · 13 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 113
- STA-MULTI 13 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #753
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Stoney Point
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Stoney Point Fire Department, NC (+ 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 GA department.
- Bartow County (this dept) 113
- High Williston Park, NY 113
- Near Stoney Point, NC 113
- Near Garden City Park, NY 113
- Near Harrington Fire C…, DE 113
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Cartersville, GA
- County
- Bartow County
- FDID
- 00801
Staffing vs the Georgia average
How Bartow County Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Georgia. In-state it ranks #22 of 328 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #753 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 13
- State fire deaths/yr
- 128
- GA departments
- 868
County roster weight
Bartow County Fire Department carries 65.7% of Bartow County HIFLD personnel
Among 4 listed departments (172 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 0% of the county count. County / state rollup.
11.50 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (13 stations / 113 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Stoney Point Fire Department, NC (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 113 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every GA department.