Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderChattanooga Fire Department
Chattanooga, TN · Hamilton County. Chattanooga Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 17 stations and 400 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.
- 400
- Total personnel
- 17
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Chattanooga Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Tennessee average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +1567%
- vs. Tennessee average
- 17
- stations
- $1,612,756
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Chattanooga Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Chattanooga, TN (Hamilton County), with 17 stations and 400 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #72 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,612,756.
- National personnel rank #72 of 22,440
- TN personnel rank #3 of 534
- 4.25 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 20 other listed departments in Hamilton County
Chattanooga Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
400 Top 1% higher than 99%+ 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 33512 · Chattanooga Fire Department, TN 400 personnel · 17 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 400
- STA-MULTI 17 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #72
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Middletown Townsh…
- FEMA-MID $1.6M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Middletown Township Fire Department, NJ (+ 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 TN department.
- High Syracuse, NY 403
- Chattanooga (this dept) 400
- Near Middletown Townsh…, NJ 400
- Near Corpus Christi, TX 399
- Low Little Rock Fire, AR 396
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Chattanooga, TN
- County
- Hamilton County
- FDID
- 33512
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | EMW-2022-FG-04188 | $126,409.09 |
| 2017 | EMW2015FH00483 | $1,486,347 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Tennessee average
How Chattanooga Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Tennessee. In-state it ranks #3 of 534 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #72 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 17
- State fire deaths/yr
- 115
- TN departments
- 921
County roster weight
Chattanooga Fire Department carries 47.3% of Hamilton County HIFLD personnel
Among 25 listed departments (845 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 32% of the county count. County / state rollup.
4.25 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (17 stations / 400 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Middletown Township Fire Department, NJ (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 400 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TN department.