Department profile
Career (Paid)Elizabethton Fire Department
Elizabethton, TN · Carter County. Elizabethton Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 33 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 33
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Elizabethton Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Tennessee average.
- Top 39%
- national personnel size
- +38%
- vs. Tennessee 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.
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.
Elizabethton Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Elizabethton, TN (Carter County), with 3 stations and 33 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,661 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #8,661 of 22,440
- TN personnel rank #158 of 534
- 9.09 stations per 100 personnel
- 8 other listed departments in Carter County
Elizabethton Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
33 Top 39% higher than 61% 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 10311 · Elizabethton Fire Department, TN 33 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 33
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #8,661
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Victoria
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Victoria Fire Department, MN (+ 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.
- Elizabethton (this dept) 33
- High Cannonsburg, KY 33
- Near Victoria, MN 33
- Near Gauley Bridge Vol…, WV 33
- Near Mount Hope Volunt…, WV 33
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Elizabethton, TN
- County
- Carter County
- FDID
- 10311
Staffing vs the Tennessee average
How Elizabethton Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Tennessee. In-state it ranks #158 of 534 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,661 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 115
- TN departments
- 921
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Carter County
County mix is mostly volunteer (7 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
9.09 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 33 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Victoria Fire Department, MN (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 33 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TN department.