Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Almelund Fire and Rescue

Center City, MN · Chisago County. Almelund Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 32 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.

32
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Almelund Fire and Rescue pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Minnesota average.

Top 40%
national personnel size
+52%
vs. Minnesota 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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
72/100
Almelund Fire and Rescue

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 B
32 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
32 personnel · 1 station

Almelund Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Center City, MN (Chisago County), with 1 station and 32 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,931 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #8,931 of 22,440
  • MN personnel rank #122 of 614
  • 3.13 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 10 other listed departments in Chisago County

Almelund Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

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

32 Top 40% higher than 60% 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 13101 · Almelund Fire and Rescue, MN 32 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 32
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #8,931
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lewisburg Volunte…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Lewisburg Volunteer Fire Department, WV (+ 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 MN department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Center City, MN
FDID
13101

Staffing vs the Minnesota average

How Almelund Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Minnesota. In-state it ranks #122 of 614 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,931 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 52% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
48
MN departments
883

County roster geometry

Chisago County HIFLD mix around Almelund Fire and Rescue

Chisago County: 11 departments, 219 personnel (8 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 9% of departments. County / state rollup.

3.13 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 32 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Lewisburg Volunteer Fire Department, WV (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

Center City Fire Department
Center City · other
Chisago City Fire Department
Chisago City · volunteer
Harris Fire Department
Harris · other
Lindstrom Fire Department
Lindstrom · other
North Branch Fire Department
North Branch · volunteer
Rush City Fire Department
Rush City · volunteer
Shafer Fire Department
Shafer · volunteer
Stacy-Lent Fire Department
Stacy · volunteer
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 32 personnel

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