Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderBowling Green Fire Department
Bowling Green, KY · Warren County. Bowling Green Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 115 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.
- 115
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Bowling Green Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Kentucky average.
- Top 3%
- national personnel size
- +448%
- vs. Kentucky average
- 5
- 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.
Bowling Green Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Bowling Green, KY (Warren County), with 5 stations and 115 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #728 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #728 of 22,440
- KY personnel rank #8 of 606
- 4.35 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 15 other listed departments in Warren County
Bowling Green Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
115 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 B3580 · Bowling Green Fire Department, KY 115 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 115
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #728
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Arbutus Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Arbutus Volunteer Fire Department, MD (+ 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.
- Bowling Green (this dept) 115
- High Pleasant Valley F…, NY 115
- Near Arbutus Volunteer, MD 115
- Near South Creek Volun…, PA 115
- Near Perth Amboy Fire, NJ 115
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Bowling Green, KY
- County
- Warren County
- FDID
- B3580
Staffing vs the Kentucky average
How Bowling Green Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Kentucky. In-state it ranks #8 of 606 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #728 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 93
- KY departments
- 981
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Warren County
County mix is mostly volunteer (8 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
4.35 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 115 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Arbutus Volunteer Fire Department, MD (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 115 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every KY department.