Department profile
Career (Paid)Selma Fire Department
Selma, AL · Dallas County. Selma Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 64 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 64
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Selma Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Alabama average.
- Top 10%
- national personnel size
- +276%
- vs. Alabama 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.
Selma Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Selma, AL (Dallas County), with 5 stations and 64 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,335 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,335 of 22,440
- AL personnel rank #26 of 733
- 7.81 stations per 100 personnel
- 14 other listed departments in Dallas County
Selma Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
64 Top 10% higher than 90% 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 02701 · Selma Fire Department, AL 64 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 64
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #2,335
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Beaver Dam Volunt…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Beaver Dam Volunteer Fire Department, NC (+ 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.
- Selma (this dept) 64
- High Stanford Heights, NY 64
- Near Beaver Dam Volunt…, NC 64
- Near Sherrills Ford Te…, NC 64
- Near Kentwood, MI 64
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Selma, AL
- County
- Dallas County
- FDID
- 02701
Staffing vs the Alabama average
How Selma Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Alabama. In-state it ranks #26 of 733 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,335 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 84
- AL departments
- 1,302
County roster weight
Selma Fire Department carries 31.8% of Dallas County HIFLD personnel
Among 17 listed departments (201 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 47% of the county count. County / state rollup.
7.81 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 64 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Beaver Dam Volunteer Fire Department, NC (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 64 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AL department.