Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderOrange Beach Fire and Rescue
Orange Beach, AL · Baldwin County. Orange Beach Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 55 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.
- 55
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Orange Beach Fire and Rescue pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Alabama average.
- Top 14%
- national personnel size
- +224%
- vs. Alabama average
- 4
- 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.
Orange Beach Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving Orange Beach, AL (Baldwin County), with 4 stations and 55 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,221 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,221 of 22,440
- AL personnel rank #35 of 733
- 7.27 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 37 other listed departments in Baldwin County
Orange Beach Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
55 Top 14% higher than 86% 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 00521 · Orange Beach Fire and Rescue, AL 55 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 55
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #3,221
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Central Crossing…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Central Crossing Fire Protection District, MO (+ 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 AL department.
- Orange Beach Fire… (this dept) 55
- High Thornapple Townsh…, MI 55
- Near Central Crossing…, MO 55
- Near Sisters Camp Sher…, OR 55
- Near Bywy Volunteer, MS 55
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Orange Beach, AL
- County
- Baldwin County
- FDID
- 00521
Staffing vs the Alabama average
How Orange Beach Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Alabama. In-state it ranks #35 of 733 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,221 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 84
- AL departments
- 1,302
County roster fringe
Orange Beach Fire and Rescue is 7.6% of Baldwin County roster mass
The county lists 46 departments totaling 728 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 54% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
7.27 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 55 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Central Crossing Fire Protection District, MO (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 55 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AL department.