Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderMooresville Fire Department
Mooresville, NC · Iredell County. Mooresville Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 64 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.
- 64
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Mooresville Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the North Carolina average.
- Top 10%
- national personnel size
- +146%
- vs. North Carolina average
- 3
- stations
- $1,105,005
- 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.
Mooresville Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Mooresville, NC (Iredell County), with 3 stations and 64 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,322 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,105,005.
- National personnel rank #2,322 of 22,440
- NC personnel rank #65 of 932
- 4.69 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 17 other listed departments in Iredell County
Mooresville Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
64 Top 10% higher than 90% 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 04905 · Mooresville Fire Department, NC 64 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 64
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,322
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Kentwood
- FEMA-MID $1.1M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Kentwood Fire Department, MI (+ 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.
- Mooresville (this dept) 64
- High Selma, AL 64
- Near Kentwood, MI 64
- Near Bedford, MI 64
- Near Lake Worth Fire R…, FL 64
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Mooresville, NC
- County
- Iredell County
- FDID
- 04905
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | EMW-2022-FG-08260 | $590,000 |
| 2011 | EMW-2011-FH-0039 | $564,000 |
| 2009 | EMW2008FF00658 | $-48,995 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the North Carolina average
How Mooresville Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #65 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,322 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 131
- NC departments
- 1,534
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Iredell County
County mix is mostly volunteer (8 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
4.69 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 64 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Kentwood Fire Department, MI (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 64 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NC department.