Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Montevallo Fire and Rescue

Montevallo, AL · Shelby County. Montevallo Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 45 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.

45
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Montevallo Fire and Rescue pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Alabama average.

Top 22%
national personnel size
+165%
vs. Alabama 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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
47/100
Montevallo 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 C
22.5 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
45 personnel · 2 stations

Montevallo Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Montevallo, AL (Shelby County), with 2 stations and 45 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,922 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #4,922 of 22,440
  • AL personnel rank #65 of 733
  • 4.44 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 30 other listed departments in Shelby County

Montevallo Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

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

45 Top 22% higher than 78% 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 05803 · Montevallo Fire and Rescue, AL 45 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 45
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #4,922
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Midland
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Midland Fire Department, MI (+ 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 AL department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Montevallo, AL
FDID
05803

Staffing vs the Alabama average

How Montevallo Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Alabama. In-state it ranks #65 of 733 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,922 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 165% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
84
AL departments
1,302

County roster fringe

Montevallo Fire and Rescue is 7.6% of Shelby County roster mass

The county lists 40 departments totaling 591 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 95% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

4.44 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 45 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Midland Fire Department, MI (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 45 personnel

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