Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderPaducah City Fire Department
Paducah, KY · Mccracken County. Paducah City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 76 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.
- 76
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Paducah City Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Kentucky average.
- Top 7%
- national personnel size
- +262%
- vs. Kentucky average
- 5
- 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.
Paducah City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Paducah, KY (Mccracken County), with 5 stations and 76 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,634 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,634 of 22,440
- KY personnel rank #20 of 606
- 6.58 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 10 other listed departments in Mccracken County
Paducah City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
76 Top 7% higher than 93% 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 73423 · Paducah City Fire Department, KY 76 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 76
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,634
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Circleville Volun…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Circleville Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+ 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 KY department.
- Paducah City (this dept) 76
- High Colonial Heights…, VA 76
- Near Circleville Volun…, PA 76
- Near Louisiana State P…, LA 76
- Near Croton Falls Fire…, NY 76
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Paducah, KY
- County
- Mccracken County
- FDID
- 73423
Staffing vs the Kentucky average
How Paducah City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Kentucky. In-state it ranks #20 of 606 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,634 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 93
- KY departments
- 981
County roster weight
Paducah City Fire Department carries 26.5% of Mccracken County HIFLD personnel
Among 15 listed departments (287 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 33% of the county count. County / state rollup.
6.58 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 76 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Circleville Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 76 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every KY department.