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Income Taxes Unrecognized Benefit (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2014	Dec. 31, 2013	Dec. 31, 2012
Reconciliation of Unrecognized Tax Benefits [Roll Forward]
Balance at beginning of year	$ 1,651us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefits	$ 1,453us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefits	$ 9,438us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefits
Prior period tax positions	188fult_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsIncreaseDecreaseResultingfromPriorPeriodTaxPositions	0fult_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsIncreaseDecreaseResultingfromPriorPeriodTaxPositions	(378)fult_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsIncreaseDecreaseResultingfromPriorPeriodTaxPositions
Current period tax positions	269us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsIncreasesResultingFromCurrentPeriodTaxPositions	318us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsIncreasesResultingFromCurrentPeriodTaxPositions	203us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsIncreasesResultingFromCurrentPeriodTaxPositions
Settlement with taxing authority	0us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsDecreasesResultingFromSettlementsWithTaxingAuthorities	0us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsDecreasesResultingFromSettlementsWithTaxingAuthorities	(7,171)us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsDecreasesResultingFromSettlementsWithTaxingAuthorities
Lapse of statute of limitations	(164)us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsReductionsResultingFromLapseOfApplicableStatuteOfLimitations	(120)us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsReductionsResultingFromLapseOfApplicableStatuteOfLimitations	(639)us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsReductionsResultingFromLapseOfApplicableStatuteOfLimitations
Balance at end of year	1,944us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefits	1,651us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefits	1,453us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefits
Lapse of statute of limitations expected to reverse in 2014	64fult_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsReductionResultingfromLapseofApplicableStatuteofLimitationsExpectedtoReversein2014
Unrecognized tax benefits that would impact effective tax rate	640fult_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsIfAllUnrecognizedStateTaxPositionsWereRecognized
Unrecognized tax benefits, interest and penalties income	47fult_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsInterestAndPenaltiesIncome	3fult_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsInterestAndPenaltiesIncome	84fult_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsInterestAndPenaltiesIncome
Income tax penalties and interest accrued	$ 485us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsIncomeTaxPenaltiesAndInterestAccrued	$ 439us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsIncomeTaxPenaltiesAndInterestAccrued

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Federal tax expense on unrecognized state tax benefits that would impact the effective tax rate if the associated unrecognized state tax benefits were recognized.

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This element represents the total of interest income recognized for an overpayment of income taxes computed by applying the applicable statutory rate of interest to the difference between a tax position recognized for financial reporting purposes and the amount previously taken or expected to be taken in a tax return of the entity and the amount of statutory penalties in the period in which the entity claims or expects to claim a tax position, in its tax return, that does not meet the minimum statutory threshold to avoid payment of penalties.

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Amount of unrecognized tax benefits pertaining to uncertain tax positions taken in tax returns.

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