Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Fort Knox Fire and Emergency Service

Fort Knox, KY · Hardin County. Fort Knox Fire and Emergency Service is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 43 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.

43
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Fort Knox Fire and Emergency Service pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Kentucky average.

Top 24%
national personnel size
+105%
vs. Kentucky 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
19/100
Fort Knox Fire and Emergency Service

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
14.3 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
43 personnel · 3 stations

Fort Knox Fire and Emergency Service is a Career (Paid) department serving Fort Knox, KY (Hardin County), with 3 stations and 43 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,290 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #5,290 of 22,440
  • KY personnel rank #105 of 606
  • 6.98 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 16 other listed departments in Hardin County

Fort Knox Fire and Emergency Service vs. the national personnel distribution

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

43 Top 24% higher than 76% 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 47213 · Fort Knox Fire and Emergency Service, KY 43 personnel · 3 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 43
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #5,290
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ River Falls
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: River Falls Fire Department, WI (+ 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 KY department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Fort Knox, KY
FDID
47213

Staffing vs the Kentucky average

How Fort Knox Fire and Emergency Service's personnel count compares to the typical department in Kentucky. In-state it ranks #105 of 606 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,290 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 105% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
93
KY departments
981

County staffing outlier

Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Hardin County

County mix is mostly volunteer (9 volunteer / 3 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.

6.98 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 43 roster).

Photo-finish peer: River Falls Fire Department, WI (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

Central Hardin County Fire Department
Elizabethtown · other
Central Hardin County Fire Rescue
Elizabethtown · volunteer
Elizabethtown Fire Department
Elizabethtown · career
Glendale Fire Department
Glendale · other
Kentucky 86 Fire Department
Cecilia · volunteer
Radcliff Fire Department
Radcliff · other
Radcliff Fire Department 1
Radcliff · career
Rineyville Fire Department
Rineyville · volunteer
All KY departments →

Nationwide career peers near 43 personnel

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