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Karns Volunteer Fire Department

Knoxville, TN · Knox County. Karns Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

Not reported
Total personnel
Not reported
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service
F
PlainFireData Composite Score
0/100
Karns Volunteer 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
No station count on file for this department
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
Other department profile

Karns Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department serving Knoxville, TN (Knox County). According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields.

  • 5 other listed departments in Knox County

Dispatch plate

Sheet TN-KARNS-VOLUNTEER-FIRE-DEPARTMENT-TN · Karns Volunteer Fire Department, TN personnel n/a

PERS-UNK · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-N · RANK-UNK · GAP-UNK · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-THIN

  • PERS-UNK Staff pending
  • STA-UNK Stations pending
  • TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UNK Rank pending
  • GAP-UNK Gap pending
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-THIN 1/5 fields

Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.

Department Profile

Type
Location
Knoxville, TN

FEMA Grant History

$0
Cumulative funding (FY2009)
1
Awards
Year Award Amount
2009 EMW2008FF00636 $-10,425

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

County roster geometry

Knox County HIFLD mix around Karns Volunteer Fire Department

Knox County: 7 departments, 262 personnel (2 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 71% of departments. County / state rollup.

Nearby Departments

Heiskell Volunteer Fire Department
Heiskell · volunteer
Knoxville Fire Department
Knoxville · other
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Frequently Asked Questions

How many firefighters does Karns Volunteer Fire Department have?

Personnel data for Karns Volunteer Fire Department is not available in the HIFLD database.

Does Karns Volunteer Fire Department provide EMS services?

Karns Volunteer Fire Department is not listed as providing EMS in the HIFLD record. Contact local emergency services to confirm which agency covers medical calls.

How many fire stations does Karns Volunteer Fire Department operate?

Station count data for Karns Volunteer Fire Department is not available in the HIFLD database.

What type of fire department is Karns Volunteer Fire Department?

Karns Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department serving Knox County, TN.

Has Karns Volunteer Fire Department received federal grants?

Yes, Karns Volunteer Fire Department has received 1 FEMA grant totaling $-10,425 in cumulative AFG and SAFER awards across FY2009 (sum of all recorded award years, not a single-year figure). The most recent award year in our extract is FY2009.

How many fire departments are in Tennessee?

Tennessee has 921 fire departments with 22,125 total personnel. 52% are volunteer departments.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Verify with USFA/FEMA →

HIFLD/USFA registry extract, informational only, not a readiness rating.