Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderPaulette Volunteer Fire Department
Maynardville, TN · Union County. Paulette Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 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
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Paulette Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Tennessee average.
- Top 14%
- national personnel size
- +129%
- vs. Tennessee average
- 2
- 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.
Paulette Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Maynardville, TN (Union County), with 2 stations and 55 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,228 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,228 of 22,440
- TN personnel rank #62 of 534
- 3.64 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 5 other listed departments in Union County
Paulette Volunteer Fire Department 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 87831 · Paulette Volunteer Fire Department, TN 55 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 55
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #3,228
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Reno Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Reno Volunteer Fire Department, OH (+ 0 personnel)
Volunteer 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.
- Paulette Volunteer (this dept) 55
- High Rarden Volunteer, OH 55
- Near Reno Volunteer, OH 55
- Near Sugar Creek, IN 55
- Near Des Moines Intern…, IA 55
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Maynardville, TN
- County
- Union County
- FDID
- 87831
Staffing vs the Tennessee average
How Paulette Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Tennessee. In-state it ranks #62 of 534 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,228 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 115
- TN departments
- 921
County roster weight
Paulette Volunteer Fire Department carries 43.7% of Union County HIFLD personnel
Among 7 listed departments (126 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 57% of the county count. County / state rollup.
3.64 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 55 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Reno Volunteer Fire Department, OH (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 55 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TN department.