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Hoover Fire Department

Birmingham, AL · Shelby County. Hoover Fire Department is a fire department. 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.

Not reported
Total personnel
Not reported
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service
F
PlainFireData Composite Score
0/100
Hoover Fire Department

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
No station count on file for this department
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
Other department profile

Hoover Fire Department is a fire department serving Birmingham, AL (Shelby County). According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $586,536.

  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 30 other listed departments in Shelby County

Dispatch plate

Sheet AL-HOOVER-FIRE-DEPARTMENT-AL · Hoover Fire Department, AL personnel n/a

PERS-UNK · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-UNK · GAP-UNK · FEMA-MID · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-UNK Staff pending
  • STA-UNK Stations pending
  • TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UNK Rank pending
  • GAP-UNK Gap pending
  • FEMA-MID $587K
  • BOOK-PART 2/5 fields

Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.

Department Profile

Type
Location
Birmingham, AL

FEMA Grant History

$587K
Cumulative funding (FY2018–2020)
2
Awards
Year Award Amount
2020 EMW-2020-FG-12724 $202,540.36
2018 EMW-2018-FH-00477 $383,995.47

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

County roster geometry

Shelby County HIFLD mix around Hoover Fire Department

Shelby County: 40 departments, 591 personnel (14 volunteer / 4 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 95% of departments. County / state rollup.

Nearby Departments

Alabaster Fire and Rescue Service
Alabaster · career
Cahaba Valley Fire
Birmingham · other
Calera Fire and Rescue
Calera · career
Chelsea Fire and Rescue Department
Chelsea · volunteer
Chelsea Fire Department
Sterrett · other
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Frequently Asked Questions

How many firefighters does Hoover Fire Department have?

Personnel data for Hoover Fire Department is not available in the HIFLD database.

Does Hoover Fire Department provide EMS services?

Yes, Hoover Fire Department provides Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in addition to fire response.

How many fire stations does Hoover Fire Department operate?

Station count data for Hoover Fire Department is not available in the HIFLD database.

What type of fire department is Hoover Fire Department?

Hoover Fire Department is a fire department serving Shelby County, AL.

Has Hoover Fire Department received federal grants?

Yes, Hoover Fire Department has received 2 FEMA grants totaling $586,535.83 in cumulative AFG and SAFER awards across FY2018–2020 (sum of all recorded award years, not a single-year figure). The most recent award year in our extract is FY2020.

How many fire departments are in Alabama?

Alabama has 1,302 fire departments with 22,091 total personnel. 51% are volunteer departments.

Related guides

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Verify with USFA/FEMA →

HIFLD/USFA registry extract, informational only, not a readiness rating.