Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Concord Fire District

Bessemer, AL · Jefferson County. Concord Fire District is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 31 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.

31
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Concord Fire District pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Alabama average.

Top 42%
national personnel size
+82%
vs. Alabama average
3
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
9/100
Concord Fire District

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
10.3 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
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
31 personnel · 3 stations

Concord Fire District is a Volunteer department serving Bessemer, AL (Jefferson County), with 3 stations and 31 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #9,508 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #9,508 of 22,440
  • AL personnel rank #169 of 733
  • 9.68 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 56 other listed departments in Jefferson County

Concord Fire District vs. the national personnel distribution

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

31 Top 42% higher than 58% 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 00124 · Concord Fire District, AL 31 personnel · 3 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 31
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #9,508
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Em Holt Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Em Holt Volunteer Fire Department, NC (+ 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 AL department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Bessemer, AL
FDID
00124

Staffing vs the Alabama average

How Concord Fire District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Alabama. In-state it ranks #169 of 733 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,508 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 82% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
84
AL departments
1,302

County roster fringe

Concord Fire District is 1.3% 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.

9.68 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 31 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Em Holt Volunteer Fire Department, NC (+0 personnel).

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

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Birmingport Fire District
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 31 personnel

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