Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Smyrna Fire Department

Smyrna, GA · Cobb County. Smyrna Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 70 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.

70
Total personnel
4
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Smyrna Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Georgia average.

Top 9%
national personnel size
+312%
vs. Georgia average
4
stations
$822,429
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
39/100
Smyrna Fire Department

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.

Staffing capacity D
17.5 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment C
$11,749 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
70 personnel · 4 stations

Smyrna Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Smyrna, GA (Cobb County), with 4 stations and 70 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,963 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $822,429.

  • National personnel rank #1,963 of 22,440
  • GA personnel rank #50 of 328
  • 5.71 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 4 other listed departments in Cobb County

Smyrna Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

70 Top 9% higher than 91% 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 03302 · Smyrna Fire Department, GA 70 personnel · 4 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 70
  • STA-FEW 4 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,963
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Parker City Volun…
  • FEMA-MID $822K
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Parker City 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 GA department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Smyrna, GA
FDID
03302

FEMA Grant History

$822K
Cumulative funding (FY2009–2010)
2
Awards
Year Award Amount
2010 EMW2009FH00278 $-612,538
2009 EMW-2009-FC-0079 $1,434,967

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the Georgia average

How Smyrna Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Georgia. In-state it ranks #50 of 328 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,963 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 312% above the state average
Stations
4
State fire deaths/yr
128
GA departments
868

County roster weight

Smyrna Fire Department carries 25.3% of Cobb County HIFLD personnel

Among 8 listed departments (277 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 0% of the county count. County / state rollup.

5.71 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 70 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Parker City Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+0 personnel).

Nationwide career peers near 70 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every GA department.