Department profile
Career (Paid)Bedford Fire Department
Bedford, IN · Lawrence County. Bedford Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 38 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 38
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Bedford Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Indiana average.
- Top 30%
- national personnel size
- +65%
- vs. Indiana 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.
Bedford Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Bedford, IN (Lawrence County), with 3 stations and 38 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #6,656 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #6,656 of 22,440
- IN personnel rank #120 of 589
- 7.89 stations per 100 personnel
- 11 other listed departments in Lawrence County
Bedford Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
38 Top 30% higher than 70% 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 47001 · Bedford Fire Department, IN 38 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 38
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #6,656
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Alplaus
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Alplaus Fire Department, NY (+ 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 IN department.
- Bedford (this dept) 38
- High Fort Mill, SC 38
- Near Alplaus, NY 38
- Near Jamestown, ND 38
- Near Rochester Volunte…, OH 38
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Bedford, IN
- County
- Lawrence County
- FDID
- 47001
Staffing vs the Indiana average
How Bedford Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Indiana. In-state it ranks #120 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #6,656 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 94
- IN departments
- 969
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Lawrence County
County mix is mostly volunteer (7 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
7.89 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 38 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Alplaus Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 38 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IN department.