Department profile
Career (Paid)Oak Ridge National Laboratory Fire Department
Oak Ridge, TN · Roane County. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 43 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 43
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Tennessee average.
- Top 24%
- national personnel size
- +79%
- vs. Tennessee average
- 1
- station
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.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Oak Ridge, TN (Roane County), with 1 station and 43 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,353 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,353 of 22,440
- TN personnel rank #91 of 534
- 2.33 stations per 100 personnel
- 12 other listed departments in Roane County
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
43 Top 24% higher than 76% 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 TN-OAK-RIDGE-NATIONAL-LABORATORY-FIRE-DEPARTMENT-TN · Oak Ridge National Laboratory Fire Department, TN 43 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-UNK · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 43
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-UPPER #5,353
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Barnwell
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 2/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Barnwell Fire Department, SC (+ 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.
- Oak Ridge Nationa… (this dept) 43
- High Elmwood Volunteer, TX 43
- Near Barnwell, SC 43
- Near Cedar Hill, TX 43
- Near Coulterville Volu…, IL 43
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Oak Ridge, TN
- County
- Roane County
Staffing vs the Tennessee average
How Oak Ridge National Laboratory Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Tennessee. In-state it ranks #91 of 534 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,353 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 115
- TN departments
- 921
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Roane County
County mix is mostly volunteer (8 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
2.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 43 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Barnwell Fire Department, SC (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 43 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TN department.