Department profile

Volunteer

Church Hill Fire Department

Church Hill, TN · Hawkins County. Church Hill Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 29 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

29
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Church Hill Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Tennessee average.

Top 49%
national personnel size
+21%
vs. Tennessee average
2
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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
19/100
Church Hill Fire Department

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.

Staffing capacity F
14.5 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
29 personnel · 2 stations

Church Hill Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Church Hill, TN (Hawkins County), with 2 stations and 29 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #10,978 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #10,978 of 22,440
  • TN personnel rank #215 of 534
  • 6.90 stations per 100 personnel
  • 15 other listed departments in Hawkins County

Church Hill Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

29 Top 49% higher than 51% 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 37191 · Church Hill Fire Department, TN 29 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 29
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-MID #10,978
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Pala Reservation
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Pala Reservation Fire Department, CA (+ 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 TN department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Church Hill, TN
FDID
37191

Staffing vs the Tennessee average

How Church Hill Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Tennessee. In-state it ranks #215 of 534 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #10,978 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 21% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
115
TN departments
921

County roster fringe

Church Hill Fire Department is 7.1% of Hawkins County roster mass

The county lists 20 departments totaling 406 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 0% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.90 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 29 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Pala Reservation Fire Department, CA (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

Nationwide volunteer peers near 29 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TN department.