Department profile
VolunteerBrighton Volunteer Fire Department
Brighton, AL · Jefferson County. Brighton Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department and 10 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 10
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Brighton Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Alabama average.
- 3rd pct.
- national personnel size
- -41%
- vs. Alabama average
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.
Brighton Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Brighton, AL (Jefferson County) and 10 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #21,831 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #21,831 of 22,440
- AL personnel rank #715 of 733
- 56 other listed departments in Jefferson County
Brighton Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
10 Top 97% higher than 3% 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 00118 · Brighton Volunteer Fire Department, AL 10 personnel
PERS-MICRO · STA-UNK · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MICRO 10
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #21,831
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Barton City
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Barton City Fire Department, MI (+ 0 personnel)
Volunteer 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.
- Brighton Volunteer (this dept) 10
- High Arbala Volunteer…, TX 10
- Near Barton City, MI 10
- Near Jordan Valley Vol…, OR 10
- Near Langlois Rural Fi…, OR 10
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Brighton, AL
- County
- Jefferson County
- FDID
- 00118
Staffing vs the Alabama average
How Brighton Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Alabama. In-state it ranks #715 of 733 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #21,831 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 84
- AL departments
- 1,302
County roster fringe
Brighton Volunteer Fire Department is 0.4% of Jefferson County roster mass
The county lists 70 departments totaling 2,415 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 91% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Barton City Fire Department, MI (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 10 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AL department.