Department profile
Career (Paid)Murfreesboro Fire Department
Murfreesboro, TN · Rutherford County. Murfreesboro Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 9 stations and 168 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 168
- Total personnel
- 9
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Murfreesboro Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Tennessee average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +600%
- vs. Tennessee average
- 9
- 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.
Murfreesboro Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Murfreesboro, TN (Rutherford County), with 9 stations and 168 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #328 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #328 of 22,440
- TN personnel rank #10 of 534
- 5.36 stations per 100 personnel
- 16 other listed departments in Rutherford County
Murfreesboro Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
168 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 75443 · Murfreesboro Fire Department, TN 168 personnel · 9 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 168
- STA-MULTI 9 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #328
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ West Islip
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: West Islip Fire Department, NY (+ 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.
- Murfreesboro (this dept) 168
- High Bernalillo County…, NM 168
- Near West Islip, NY 168
- Near Brookline, MA 168
- Low Ronkonkoma, NY 167
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Murfreesboro, TN
- County
- Rutherford County
- FDID
- 75443
Staffing vs the Tennessee average
How Murfreesboro Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Tennessee. In-state it ranks #10 of 534 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #328 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 9
- State fire deaths/yr
- 115
- TN departments
- 921
County roster weight
Murfreesboro Fire Department carries 30.5% of Rutherford County HIFLD personnel
Among 22 listed departments (551 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 41% of the county count. County / state rollup.
5.36 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (9 stations / 168 roster).
Photo-finish peer: West Islip Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 168 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TN department.