Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderBillings Fire Department
Billings, MT · Yellowstone County. Billings Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 6 stations and 108 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.
- 108
- Total personnel
- 6
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Billings Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Montana average.
- Top 4%
- national personnel size
- +620%
- vs. Montana average
- 6
- 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.
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.
Billings Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Billings, MT (Yellowstone County), with 6 stations and 108 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #802 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #802 of 22,440
- MT personnel rank #3 of 227
- 5.56 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 11 other listed departments in Yellowstone County
Billings Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
108 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 03001 · Billings Fire Department, MT 108 personnel · 6 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 108
- STA-MULTI 6 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #802
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ City of Harlingen
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: City of Harlingen Fire Department, TX (+ 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 MT department.
- Billings (this dept) 108
- High South Farmingdale, NY 108
- Near City of Harlingen, TX 108
- Near City of LA Porte, TX 108
- Near Hancock, NY 108
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Billings, MT
- County
- Yellowstone County
- FDID
- 03001
Staffing vs the Montana average
How Billings Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Montana. In-state it ranks #3 of 227 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #802 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 6
- State fire deaths/yr
- 19
- MT departments
- 416
County roster weight
Billings Fire Department carries 38.6% of Yellowstone County HIFLD personnel
Among 15 listed departments (280 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 33% of the county count. County / state rollup.
5.56 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (6 stations / 108 roster).
Photo-finish peer: City of Harlingen Fire Department, TX (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 108 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MT department.