Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderGallatin City Fire Department
Gallatin, TN · Sumner County. Gallatin City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 50 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.
- 50
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Gallatin City Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Tennessee average.
- Top 17%
- national personnel size
- +108%
- vs. Tennessee average
- 2
- stations
- $3,203,258
- 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.
Gallatin City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Gallatin, TN (Sumner County), with 2 stations and 50 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,897 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $3,203,258.
- National personnel rank #3,897 of 22,440
- TN personnel rank #68 of 534
- 4.00 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 14 other listed departments in Sumner County
Gallatin City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
50 Top 17% higher than 83% 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 83313 · Gallatin City Fire Department, TN 50 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 50
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #3,897
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Harlan Township F…
- FEMA-MID $3.2M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Harlan Township Fire and Rescue, OH (+ 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.
- Gallatin City (this dept) 50
- High Cambridge Fire an…, IA 50
- Near Harlan Township F…, OH 50
- Near Salem Township Vo…, OH 50
- Near Oakdale, MN 50
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Gallatin, TN
- County
- Sumner County
- FDID
- 83313
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | EMW-2018-FO-04502 | $330,455 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FH-00307 | $1,340,800.17 |
| 2010 | EMW-2010-FH-0020 | $1,532,003 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Tennessee average
How Gallatin City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Tennessee. In-state it ranks #68 of 534 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,897 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 115
- TN departments
- 921
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Sumner County
County mix is mostly volunteer (11 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
4.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 50 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Harlan Township Fire and Rescue, OH (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 50 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TN department.