Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderSomerset Fire and Emergency Medical Services
Somerset, KY · Pulaski County. Somerset Fire and Emergency Medical Services is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 89 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.
- 89
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Somerset Fire and Emergency Medical Services pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Kentucky average.
- Top 5%
- national personnel size
- +324%
- vs. Kentucky average
- 1
- station
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.
Somerset Fire and Emergency Medical Services is a Career (Paid) department serving Somerset, KY (Pulaski County), with 1 station and 89 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,207 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,207 of 22,440
- KY personnel rank #12 of 606
- 1.12 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 17 other listed departments in Pulaski County
Somerset Fire and Emergency Medical Services vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
89 Top 5% higher than 95% 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 00525 · Somerset Fire and Emergency Medical Services, KY 89 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 89
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,207
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lavale Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Lavale Volunteer Fire Department, MD (+ 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 KY department.
- Somerset Fire and… (this dept) 89
- High Montclair, NJ 89
- Near Lavale Volunteer, MD 89
- Near Eastman Fire and…, SC 89
- Near Conneaut, OH 89
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Somerset, KY
- County
- Pulaski County
- FDID
- 00525
Staffing vs the Kentucky average
How Somerset Fire and Emergency Medical Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in Kentucky. In-state it ranks #12 of 606 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,207 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 93
- KY departments
- 981
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Pulaski County
County mix is mostly volunteer (9 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
1.12 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 89 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Lavale Volunteer Fire Department, MD (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 89 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every KY department.