Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderDecatur Fire and Rescue
Decatur, AL · Morgan County. Decatur Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 8 stations and 112 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.
- 112
- Total personnel
- 8
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Decatur Fire and Rescue pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Alabama average.
- Top 3%
- national personnel size
- +559%
- vs. Alabama average
- 8
- stations
- $305,867
- 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.
Decatur Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving Decatur, AL (Morgan County), with 8 stations and 112 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #766 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $305,867.
- National personnel rank #766 of 22,440
- AL personnel rank #9 of 733
- 7.14 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 24 other listed departments in Morgan County
Decatur Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
112 Top 3% higher than 97% 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 05201 · Decatur Fire and Rescue, AL 112 personnel · 8 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 112
- STA-MULTI 8 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #766
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cheshire
- FEMA-LIGHT $306K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Cheshire Fire Department, CT (+ 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.
- Decatur Fire and… (this dept) 112
- High McMinnville, OR 112
- Near Cheshire, CT 112
- Near North Point Edgem…, MD 112
- Near O'fallon Fire Pro…, MO 112
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Decatur, AL
- County
- Morgan County
- FDID
- 05201
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | EMW2014FV01153 | $410,455 |
| 2010 | EMW2009FH00255 | $-104,588 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Alabama average
How Decatur Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Alabama. In-state it ranks #9 of 733 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #766 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 8
- State fire deaths/yr
- 84
- AL departments
- 1,302
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Morgan County
County mix is mostly volunteer (17 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
7.14 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (8 stations / 112 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Cheshire Fire Department, CT (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 112 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AL department.