Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderFort Morgan Volunteer Fire Department
Gulf Shores, AL · Baldwin County. Fort Morgan Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 38 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.
- 38
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Fort Morgan Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount more than double the Alabama average.
- Top 30%
- national personnel size
- +124%
- 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.
Fort Morgan Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Gulf Shores, AL (Baldwin County), with 2 stations and 38 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #6,740 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #6,740 of 22,440
- AL personnel rank #107 of 733
- 5.26 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 37 other listed departments in Baldwin County
Fort Morgan Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
38 Top 30% higher than 70% 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 00517 · Fort Morgan Volunteer Fire Department, AL 38 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 38
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #6,740
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Pine Grove Rural…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Pine Grove Rural Fire Protection District, OR (+ 0 personnel)
Volunteer 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.
- Fort Morgan Volun… (this dept) 38
- High Brandon, SD 38
- Near Pine Grove Rural…, OR 38
- Near Cole Camp and Rur…, MO 38
- Near Strasburg Volunte…, CO 38
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Gulf Shores, AL
- County
- Baldwin County
- FDID
- 00517
Staffing vs the Alabama average
How Fort Morgan Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Alabama. In-state it ranks #107 of 733 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #6,740 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
Fort Morgan Volunteer Fire Department is 5.2% of Baldwin County roster mass
The county lists 46 departments totaling 728 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 54% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.26 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 38 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Pine Grove Rural Fire Protection District, OR (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 38 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AL department.