Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderForestdale Fire District
Birmingham, AL · Jefferson County. Forestdale Fire District is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 34 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.
- 34
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Forestdale Fire District 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
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.
Forestdale Fire District is a Career (Paid) department serving Birmingham, AL (Jefferson 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 #8,335 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #8,335 of 22,440
- AL personnel rank #143 of 733
- 5.88 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 56 other listed departments in Jefferson County
Forestdale Fire District 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 00154 · Forestdale Fire District, AL 34 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 34
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #8,335
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Gaston Rural Fire…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Gaston Rural Fire Protection District, OR (+ 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.
- Forestdale Fire D… (this dept) 34
- High Graham, NC 34
- Near Gaston Rural Fire…, OR 34
- Near Onley Volunteer F…, VA 34
- Near North Central Ala…, NC 34
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Birmingham, AL
- County
- Jefferson County
- FDID
- 00154
Staffing vs the Alabama average
How Forestdale Fire District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Alabama. In-state it ranks #143 of 733 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,335 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
Forestdale Fire District is 1.4% 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.
5.88 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 34 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Gaston Rural Fire Protection District, OR (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
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.