Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Jacksons Gap Fire Department

Jacksons Gap, AL · Tallapoosa County. Jacksons Gap Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 18 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.

18
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Jacksons Gap Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount in line with the Alabama average.

17th pct.
national personnel size
+6%
vs. Alabama average
1
station

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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
32/100
Jacksons Gap 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 D
18 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
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
18 personnel · 1 station

Jacksons Gap Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Jacksons Gap, AL (Tallapoosa County), with 1 station and 18 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #18,579 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #18,579 of 22,440
  • AL personnel rank #550 of 733
  • 5.56 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 13 other listed departments in Tallapoosa County

Jacksons Gap Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

18 Top 83% higher than 17% 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 06208 · Jacksons Gap Fire Department, AL 18 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 18
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #18,579
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Heislerville Volu…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Heislerville Volunteer Fire Company, NJ (+ 0 personnel)

Volunteer 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
VOLUNTEER
Location
Jacksons Gap, AL
FDID
06208

Staffing vs the Alabama average

How Jacksons Gap Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Alabama. In-state it ranks #550 of 733 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #18,579 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 6% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
84
AL departments
1,302

County roster fringe

Jacksons Gap Fire Department is 5.1% of Tallapoosa County roster mass

The county lists 19 departments totaling 355 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 68% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

5.56 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 18 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Heislerville Volunteer Fire Company, NJ (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 18 personnel

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