Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderLake Dreamland Fire Department
Louisville, KY · Jefferson County. Lake Dreamland Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 53 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.
- 53
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Lake Dreamland Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Kentucky average.
- Top 15%
- national personnel size
- +152%
- vs. Kentucky average
- 2
- 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.
Lake Dreamland Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Louisville, KY (Jefferson County), with 2 stations and 53 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,466 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,466 of 22,440
- KY personnel rank #65 of 606
- 3.77 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 26 other listed departments in Jefferson County
Lake Dreamland Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
53 Top 15% higher than 85% 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 56289 · Lake Dreamland Fire Department, KY 53 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 53
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #3,466
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ West Carrollton
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: West Carrollton Fire Department, OH (+ 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 KY department.
- Lake Dreamland (this dept) 53
- High Fort Polk, LA 53
- Near West Carrollton, OH 53
- Near Northern Lakes Fi…, ID 53
- Near Enfield Volunteer…, NY 53
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Louisville, KY
- County
- Jefferson County
- FDID
- 56289
Staffing vs the Kentucky average
How Lake Dreamland Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Kentucky. In-state it ranks #65 of 606 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,466 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 93
- KY departments
- 981
County roster fringe
Lake Dreamland Fire Department is 2.9% 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.
3.77 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 53 roster).
Photo-finish peer: West Carrollton Fire Department, OH (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 53 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every KY department.