Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Jacksonville Fire Department

Jacksonville, AR · Pulaski County. Jacksonville Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 61 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.

61
Total personnel
4
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Jacksonville Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Arkansas average.

Top 11%
national personnel size
+369%
vs. Arkansas 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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
18/100
Jacksonville 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
15.3 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness F
0.8 vehicles per station (national median 2)
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
61 personnel · 4 stations

Jacksonville Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Jacksonville, AR (Pulaski County), with 4 stations and 61 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,504 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,504 of 22,440
  • AR personnel rank #17 of 604
  • 6.56 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 24 other listed departments in Pulaski County

Jacksonville Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

61 Top 11% higher than 89% 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 60300 · Jacksonville Fire Department, AR 61 personnel · 4 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 61
  • STA-FEW 4 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #2,504
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Beechwood Volunte…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Beechwood Volunteer Fire Department, WI (+ 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 AR department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Jacksonville, AR
FDID
60300

Staffing vs the Arkansas average

How Jacksonville Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arkansas. In-state it ranks #17 of 604 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,504 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 369% above the state average
Stations
4
State fire deaths/yr
68
AR departments
1,168

County roster fringe

Jacksonville Fire Department is 5.3% of Pulaski County roster mass

The county lists 35 departments totaling 1,145 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 11% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.56 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 61 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Beechwood Volunteer Fire Department, WI (+0 personnel).

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

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Camp Robinson Volunteer Fire Department-Dod
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Crystal Volunteer Fire
Little Rock · volunteer
East Pulaski Volunteer Fire Department
North Little Rock · other
Gravel Ridge Volunteer Fire Department
Jacksonville · volunteer
Hensley Fire Department
Hensley · volunteer
All AR departments →

Nationwide career peers near 61 personnel

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