Department profile
Career (Paid)Millington Fire Department
Millington, TN · Shelby County. Millington Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 80 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 80
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Millington Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Tennessee average.
- Top 7%
- national personnel size
- +233%
- vs. Tennessee average
- 4
- stations
- $332,500
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Millington Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Millington, TN (Shelby County), with 4 stations and 80 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,494 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $332,500.
- National personnel rank #1,494 of 22,440
- TN personnel rank #33 of 534
- 5.00 stations per 100 personnel
- 10 other listed departments in Shelby County
Millington Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
80 Top 7% higher than 93% 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 79363 · Millington Fire Department, TN 80 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 80
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #1,494
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Montgomery County…
- FEMA-LIGHT $333K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Montgomery County Fire District, KY (+ 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.
- Millington (this dept) 80
- High Arbor Vitae Volun…, WI 80
- Near Montgomery County…, KY 80
- Near Rudolph Volunteer, WI 80
- Near Delavan Township…, WI 80
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Millington, TN
- County
- Shelby County
- FDID
- 79363
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | EMW2012FV02881 | $332,500 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Tennessee average
How Millington Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Tennessee. In-state it ranks #33 of 534 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,494 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 115
- TN departments
- 921
County roster fringe
Millington Fire Department is 3.4% of Shelby County roster mass
The county lists 15 departments totaling 2,366 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 80% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 80 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Montgomery County Fire District, KY (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 80 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TN department.