Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Beaver Dam Fire Department

Beaver Dam, WI · Dodge County. Beaver Dam Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 49 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.

49
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Beaver Dam Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Wisconsin average.

Top 18%
national personnel size
+75%
vs. Wisconsin 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
PlainFireData Composite Score
91/100
Beaver Dam 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 A
49 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
49 personnel · 1 station

Beaver Dam Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Beaver Dam, WI (Dodge County), with 1 station and 49 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,127 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #4,127 of 22,440
  • WI personnel rank #103 of 695
  • 2.04 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 20 other listed departments in Dodge County

Beaver Dam Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

49 Top 18% higher than 82% 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 14200 · Beaver Dam Fire Department, WI 49 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 49
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #4,127
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Turner County Eme…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Turner County Emergency Services, GA (+ 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 WI department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Beaver Dam, WI
FDID
14200

Staffing vs the Wisconsin average

How Beaver Dam Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Wisconsin. In-state it ranks #103 of 695 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,127 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 75% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
54
WI departments
961

County roster fringe

Beaver Dam Fire Department is 7.4% of Dodge County roster mass

The county lists 21 departments totaling 659 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 86% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.04 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 49 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Turner County Emergency Services, GA (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 49 personnel

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