Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Tabernacle Fire Department

Trinity, NC · Randolph County. Tabernacle Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 54 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.

54
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Tabernacle Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the North Carolina average.

Top 15%
national personnel size
+108%
vs. North Carolina average
2
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
59/100
Tabernacle 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 C
27 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
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
54 personnel · 2 stations

Tabernacle Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Trinity, NC (Randolph County), with 2 stations and 54 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,392 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #3,392 of 22,440
  • NC personnel rank #109 of 932
  • 3.70 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 20 other listed departments in Randolph County

Tabernacle Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

54 Top 15% higher than 85% 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 07621 · Tabernacle Fire Department, NC 54 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 54
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #3,392
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Elmira Heights
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Elmira Heights Fire Department, NY (+ 0 personnel)

Volunteer 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 NC department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Trinity, NC
FDID
07621

Staffing vs the North Carolina average

How Tabernacle Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #109 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,392 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 108% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
131
NC departments
1,534

County roster fringe

Tabernacle Fire Department is 9.9% of Randolph County roster mass

The county lists 26 departments totaling 548 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 96% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.70 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 54 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Elmira Heights Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 54 personnel

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