Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Beatrice Fire and Rescue

Beatrice, NE · Gage County. Beatrice Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 31 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.

31
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

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

Top 42%
national personnel size
+72%
vs. Nebraska 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
70/100
Beatrice 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
31 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
31 personnel · 1 station

Beatrice Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving Beatrice, NE (Gage County), with 1 station and 31 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #9,458 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #9,458 of 22,440
  • NE personnel rank #92 of 258
  • 3.23 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 10 other listed departments in Gage County

Beatrice Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

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

31 Top 42% higher than 58% 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 03003 · Beatrice Fire and Rescue, NE 31 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 31
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #9,458
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Davie Center Volu…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Davie Center Volunteer Fire Department, NC (+ 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 NE department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY CAREER
Location
Beatrice, NE
FDID
03003

Staffing vs the Nebraska average

How Beatrice Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Nebraska. In-state it ranks #92 of 258 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,458 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 72% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
26
NE departments
511

County staffing outlier

Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Gage County

County mix is mostly volunteer (5 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.

3.23 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 31 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Davie Center Volunteer Fire Department, NC (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

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Nationwide career peers near 31 personnel

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