Department profile
Career (Paid)Hopkinsville Fire Department
Hopkinsville, KY · Christian County. Hopkinsville Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 80 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 80
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Hopkinsville Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Kentucky average.
- Top 7%
- national personnel size
- +281%
- vs. Kentucky average
- 4
- 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.
Hopkinsville Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Hopkinsville, KY (Christian County), with 4 stations and 80 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,481 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,481 of 22,440
- KY personnel rank #17 of 606
- 5.00 stations per 100 personnel
- 15 other listed departments in Christian County
Hopkinsville Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
80 Top 7% higher than 93% 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 24115 · Hopkinsville Fire Department, KY 80 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 80
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #1,481
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lowville
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Lowville Fire Department, NY (+ 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 KY department.
- Hopkinsville (this dept) 80
- High Scottsville Volun…, NY 80
- Near Lowville, NY 80
- Near Dodgeville, WI 80
- Near Smithsburg Commun…, MD 80
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Hopkinsville, KY
- County
- Christian County
- FDID
- 24115
Staffing vs the Kentucky average
How Hopkinsville Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Kentucky. In-state it ranks #17 of 606 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,481 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 93
- KY departments
- 981
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Christian County
County mix is mostly volunteer (9 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
5.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 80 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Lowville Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 80 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every KY department.