Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderShelbyville Fire Department
Shelbyville, TN · Bedford County. Shelbyville Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 45 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.
- 45
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Shelbyville Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Tennessee average.
- Top 22%
- national personnel size
- +88%
- vs. Tennessee average
- 3
- stations
- $282,670
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Shelbyville Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Shelbyville, TN (Bedford County), with 3 stations and 45 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,001 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $282,670.
- National personnel rank #5,001 of 22,440
- TN personnel rank #88 of 534
- 6.67 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 3 other listed departments in Bedford County
Shelbyville Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
45 Top 22% higher than 78% 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 02323 · Shelbyville Fire Department, TN 45 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 45
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,001
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Buchanan Volunteer
- FEMA-LIGHT $283K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Buchanan Volunteer Fire Department, VA (+ 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.
- Shelbyville (this dept) 45
- High Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ 45
- Near Buchanan Volunteer, VA 45
- Near Anoka-Champlin, MN 45
- Near Midland Park, NJ 45
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Shelbyville, TN
- County
- Bedford County
- FDID
- 02323
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | EMW2016FH00489 | $282,670 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Tennessee average
How Shelbyville Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Tennessee. In-state it ranks #88 of 534 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,001 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 115
- TN departments
- 921
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Bedford County
County mix is mostly volunteer (2 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
6.67 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 45 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Buchanan Volunteer Fire Department, VA (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 45 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TN department.