Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Kernersville Fire Department

Kernersville, NC · Forsyth County. Kernersville Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 56 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.

56
Total personnel
4
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Kernersville Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the North Carolina average.

Top 13%
national personnel size
+115%
vs. North Carolina 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
Kernersville 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 F
14 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
56 personnel · 4 stations

Kernersville Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Kernersville, NC (Forsyth County), with 4 stations and 56 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,009 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #3,009 of 22,440
  • NC personnel rank #88 of 932
  • 7.14 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 22 other listed departments in Forsyth County

Kernersville Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

56 Top 13% higher than 87% 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 03408 · Kernersville Fire Department, NC 56 personnel · 4 stations

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

  • PERS-MID 56
  • STA-FEW 4 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #3,009
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Great Barrington
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Great Barrington Fire Department, MA (+ 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 NC department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Kernersville, NC
FDID
03408

Staffing vs the North Carolina average

How Kernersville Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #88 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,009 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 115% above the state average
Stations
4
State fire deaths/yr
131
NC departments
1,534

County roster fringe

Kernersville Fire Department is 5.5% of Forsyth County roster mass

The county lists 24 departments totaling 1,020 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 88% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

7.14 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 56 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Great Barrington Fire Department, MA (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

Beeson Cross Roads Fire and Rescue
Kernersville · volunteer
Belews Creek Volunteer Fire and Rescue
Belews Creek · volunteer
City View Volunteer Fire Department
Winston Salem · other
Clemmons Fire Department
Winston Salem · other
Clemmons Fire Department
Clemmons · volunteer
Forsyth County Fire Department
Winston Salem · career
Griffith Fire Department
Winston Salem · volunteer
Horneytown Fire and Rescue
High Point · volunteer
All NC departments →

Nationwide career peers near 56 personnel

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