Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Graysville Fire and Rescue

Graysville, AL · Jefferson County. Graysville Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 19 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.

19
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Graysville Fire and Rescue pairs modest national personnel with a headcount in line with the Alabama average.

20th pct.
national personnel size
+12%
vs. Alabama average
2
stations
$628,862
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
41/100
Graysville Fire and Rescue

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
9.5 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 B
$33,098 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
19 personnel · 2 stations

Graysville Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving Graysville, AL (Jefferson County), with 2 stations and 19 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #17,997 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $628,862.

  • National personnel rank #17,997 of 22,440
  • AL personnel rank #522 of 733
  • 10.53 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 56 other listed departments in Jefferson County

Graysville Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

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

19 Top 80% higher than 20% 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 00116 · Graysville Fire and Rescue, AL 19 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 19
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #17,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Fair Oaks Rural F…
  • FEMA-MID $629K
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Fair Oaks 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.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY CAREER
Location
Graysville, AL
FDID
00116

FEMA Grant History

$629K
Cumulative funding (FY2014–2017)
2
Awards
Year Award Amount
2017 EMW2015FH00495 $386,640
2014 EMW2013FO01981 $242,222

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the Alabama average

How Graysville Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Alabama. In-state it ranks #522 of 733 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #17,997 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 12% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
84
AL departments
1,302

County roster fringe

Graysville Fire and Rescue is 0.8% 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.

10.53 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 19 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Fair Oaks Rural Fire Protection District, OR (+0 personnel).

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Nationwide career peers near 19 personnel

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