Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Collierville Fire and Rescue

Collierville, TN · Shelby County. Collierville Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 82 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.

82
Total personnel
5
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Collierville Fire and Rescue pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Tennessee average.

Top 6%
national personnel size
+242%
vs. Tennessee average
5
stations
$351,716
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
21/100
Collierville Fire and Rescue

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 D
16.4 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment F
$4,289 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
82 personnel · 5 stations

Collierville Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving Collierville, TN (Shelby County), with 5 stations and 82 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,387 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $351,716.

  • National personnel rank #1,387 of 22,440
  • TN personnel rank #32 of 534
  • 6.10 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 10 other listed departments in Shelby County

Collierville Fire and Rescue 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 79216 · Collierville Fire and Rescue, TN 82 personnel · 5 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 82
  • STA-FEW 5 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,387
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Richmond
  • FEMA-LIGHT $352K
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Richmond Fire Department, IN (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY CAREER
Location
Collierville, TN
FDID
79216

FEMA Grant History

$352K
Cumulative funding (FY2012–2019)
2
Awards
Year Award Amount
2019 EMW-2019-FG-00515 $180,455
2012 EMW2011FO08631 $171,261

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the Tennessee average

How Collierville Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Tennessee. In-state it ranks #32 of 534 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,387 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 242% above the state average
Stations
5
State fire deaths/yr
115
TN departments
921

County roster fringe

Collierville Fire and Rescue is 3.5% of Shelby County roster mass

The county lists 15 departments totaling 2,366 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 80% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.10 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 82 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Richmond Fire Department, IN (+0 personnel).

Nationwide career peers near 82 personnel

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