Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderHoover Fire Department
Hoover, AL · Jefferson County. Hoover Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 8 stations and 150 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.
- 150
- Total personnel
- 8
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Hoover Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Alabama average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +782%
- vs. Alabama average
- 8
- 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.
Hoover Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Hoover, AL (Jefferson County), with 8 stations and 150 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #412 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #412 of 22,440
- AL personnel rank #6 of 733
- 5.33 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 56 other listed departments in Jefferson County
Hoover Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
150 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 00112 · Hoover Fire Department, AL 150 personnel · 8 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 150
- STA-MULTI 8 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #412
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ South Kitsap Fire…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: South Kitsap Fire and Rescue, WA (+ 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.
- Hoover (this dept) 150
- High Hamden, CT 150
- Near South Kitsap Fire…, WA 150
- Near Klein Volunteer, TX 150
- Near Ppl Susquehanna F…, PA 150
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Hoover, AL
- County
- Jefferson County
- FDID
- 00112
Staffing vs the Alabama average
How Hoover Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Alabama. In-state it ranks #6 of 733 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #412 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 8
- State fire deaths/yr
- 84
- AL departments
- 1,302
County roster fringe
Hoover Fire Department is 6.2% 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.
5.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (8 stations / 150 roster).
Photo-finish peer: South Kitsap Fire and Rescue, WA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 150 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AL department.