Department profile

Career (Paid)

Manchester Fire and Rescue

Manchester, TN · Coffee County. Manchester Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 33 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

33
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Manchester Fire and Rescue pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Tennessee average.

Top 39%
national personnel size
+38%
vs. Tennessee 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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
27/100
Manchester Fire and Rescue

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
16.5 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
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
33 personnel · 2 stations

Manchester Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving Manchester, TN (Coffee County), with 2 stations and 33 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,760 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #8,760 of 22,440
  • TN personnel rank #163 of 534
  • 6.06 stations per 100 personnel
  • 9 other listed departments in Coffee County

Manchester Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

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

33 Top 39% higher than 61% 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 16213 · Manchester Fire and Rescue, TN 33 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 33
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #8,760
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Skyline Lakes Vol…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Skyline Lakes Volunteer Fire Department, NJ (+ 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 TN department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Manchester, TN
FDID
16213

Staffing vs the Tennessee average

How Manchester Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Tennessee. In-state it ranks #163 of 534 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,760 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 38% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
115
TN departments
921

County staffing outlier

Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Coffee County

County mix is mostly volunteer (4 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.

6.06 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 33 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Skyline Lakes Volunteer Fire Department, NJ (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide career peers near 33 personnel

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