Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderJeffersontown Fire District
Louisville, KY · Jefferson County. Jeffersontown Fire District is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 55 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.
- 55
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Jeffersontown Fire District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Kentucky average.
- Top 14%
- national personnel size
- +162%
- vs. Kentucky average
- 3
- 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.
Jeffersontown Fire District is a Career (Paid) department serving Louisville, KY (Jefferson County), with 3 stations and 55 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,167 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,167 of 22,440
- KY personnel rank #56 of 606
- 5.45 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 26 other listed departments in Jefferson County
Jeffersontown Fire District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
55 Top 14% higher than 86% 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 56288 · Jeffersontown Fire District, KY 55 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 55
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #3,167
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ East Kingston
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: East Kingston 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.
- Jeffersontown Fir… (this dept) 55
- High Nuremburg Weston…, PA 55
- Near East Kingston, NY 55
- Near Central City, PA 55
- Near Cayuga Heights, NY 55
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Louisville, KY
- County
- Jefferson County
- FDID
- 56288
Staffing vs the Kentucky average
How Jeffersontown Fire District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Kentucky. In-state it ranks #56 of 606 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,167 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 93
- KY departments
- 981
County roster fringe
Jeffersontown Fire District is 3.0% of Jefferson County roster mass
The county lists 40 departments totaling 1,819 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 93% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.45 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 55 roster).
Photo-finish peer: East Kingston Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 55 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every KY department.