Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderCity of Vestavia Hills Fire Department
Vestavia Hills, AL · Jefferson County. City of Vestavia Hills Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 97 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.
- 97
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
City of Vestavia Hills Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Alabama average.
- Top 4%
- national personnel size
- +471%
- vs. Alabama average
- 5
- stations
- $2,055,895
- 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.
City of Vestavia Hills Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Vestavia Hills, AL (Jefferson County), with 5 stations and 97 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,007 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $2,055,895.
- National personnel rank #1,007 of 22,440
- AL personnel rank #12 of 733
- 5.15 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 56 other listed departments in Jefferson County
City of Vestavia Hills Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
97 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 00109 · City of Vestavia Hills Fire Department, AL 97 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 97
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Baytown Fire and…
- FEMA-MID $2.1M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Baytown Fire and Rescue, TX (+ 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 AL department.
- City of Vestavia… (this dept) 97
- High Potomac Heights V…, MD 97
- Near Baytown Fire and…, TX 97
- Near Champaign, IL 97
- Near East Point, GA 97
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Vestavia Hills, AL
- County
- Jefferson County
- FDID
- 00109
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FF-00756 | $1,576,399.79 |
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FG-09429 | $172,545 |
| 2018 | EMW2016FH00157 | $306,950.1 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Alabama average
How City of Vestavia Hills Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Alabama. In-state it ranks #12 of 733 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,007 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 84
- AL departments
- 1,302
County roster fringe
City of Vestavia Hills Fire Department is 4.0% 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.
5.15 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 97 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Baytown Fire and Rescue, TX (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 97 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AL department.