Department profile
Career (Paid)Cleveland Fire Department
Cleveland, TN · Bradley County. Cleveland Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 82 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 82
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Cleveland Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Tennessee average.
- Top 6%
- national personnel size
- +242%
- vs. Tennessee average
- 4
- 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.
Cleveland Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Cleveland, TN (Bradley County), with 4 stations and 82 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,385 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,385 of 22,440
- TN personnel rank #31 of 534
- 4.88 stations per 100 personnel
- 1 other listed department in Bradley County
Cleveland Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
82 Top 6% higher than 94% 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 06312 · Cleveland Fire Department, TN 82 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 82
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #1,385
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Waterford Township
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Waterford Township Fire Department, MI (+ 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.
- Cleveland (this dept) 82
- High Turn of River, CT 82
- Near Waterford Township, MI 82
- Near Gainesville, GA 82
- Near Westbrook, CT 82
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Cleveland, TN
- County
- Bradley County
- FDID
- 06312
Staffing vs the Tennessee average
How Cleveland Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Tennessee. In-state it ranks #31 of 534 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,385 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 115
- TN departments
- 921
County roster weight
Cleveland Fire Department carries 100.0% of Bradley County HIFLD personnel
Among 3 listed departments (82 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 0% of the county count. County / state rollup.
4.88 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 82 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Waterford Township Fire Department, MI (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nationwide career peers near 82 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TN department.