Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderShelby County Fire Department
Memphis, TN · Shelby County. Shelby County Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 9 stations and 144 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.
- 144
- Total personnel
- 9
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Shelby County Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Tennessee average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +500%
- vs. Tennessee average
- 9
- 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.
Shelby County Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Memphis, TN (Shelby County), with 9 stations and 144 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #456 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #456 of 22,440
- TN personnel rank #14 of 534
- 6.25 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 10 other listed departments in Shelby County
Shelby County Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
144 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 79783 · Shelby County Fire Department, TN 144 personnel · 9 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 144
- STA-MULTI 9 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #456
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lafayette
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Lafayette Fire Department, IN (+ 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.
- Shelby County (this dept) 144
- High City of Myrtle Be…, SC 144
- Near Lafayette, IN 144
- Near Santa Rosa, CA 144
- Near Glen Cove Volunte…, NY 144
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Memphis, TN
- County
- Shelby County
- FDID
- 79783
Staffing vs the Tennessee average
How Shelby County Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Tennessee. In-state it ranks #14 of 534 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #456 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 9
- State fire deaths/yr
- 115
- TN departments
- 921
County roster fringe
Shelby County Fire Department is 6.1% of Shelby County roster mass
The county lists 15 departments totaling 2,366 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 80% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
6.25 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (9 stations / 144 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Lafayette Fire Department, IN (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 144 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TN department.