Department profile
Career (Paid)Cullman Fire Rescue
Cullman, AL · Cullman County. Cullman Fire Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 34 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 34
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Cullman Fire Rescue pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount more than double the Alabama average.
- Top 37%
- national personnel size
- +100%
- vs. Alabama average
- 2
- stations
- $1,647,664
- 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.
Cullman Fire Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving Cullman, AL (Cullman County), with 2 stations and 34 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,308 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,647,664.
- National personnel rank #8,308 of 22,440
- AL personnel rank #142 of 733
- 5.88 stations per 100 personnel
- 30 other listed departments in Cullman County
Cullman Fire Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
34 Top 37% higher than 63% 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 02501 · Cullman Fire Rescue, AL 34 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 34
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #8,308
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Mundy Township
- FEMA-MID $1.6M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Mundy 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 AL department.
- Cullman Fire Resc… (this dept) 34
- High Clever Fire Prote…, MO 34
- Near Mundy Township, MI 34
- Near Fayetteville, NC 34
- Near Beech Island, SC 34
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Cullman, AL
- County
- Cullman County
- FDID
- 02501
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | EMW-2018-FO-05094 | $242,857 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FO-05763 | $266,991 |
| 2015 | EMW2014FH00567 | $1,137,816 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Alabama average
How Cullman Fire Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Alabama. In-state it ranks #142 of 733 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,308 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 84
- AL departments
- 1,302
County roster fringe
Cullman Fire Rescue is 7.6% of Cullman County roster mass
The county lists 46 departments totaling 448 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 0% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.88 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 34 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Mundy Township Fire Department, MI (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 34 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AL department.