Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderBlack Jack Fire Protection District
Florissant, MO · St Louis County. Black Jack Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 37 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.
- 37
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Black Jack Fire Protection District pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Missouri average.
- Top 31%
- national personnel size
- +85%
- vs. Missouri average
- 3
- 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.
Black Jack Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department serving Florissant, MO (St Louis County), with 3 stations and 37 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #6,937 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #6,937 of 22,440
- MO personnel rank #140 of 659
- 8.11 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 52 other listed departments in St Louis County
Black Jack Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
37 Top 31% higher than 69% 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 09530 · Black Jack Fire Protection District, MO 37 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 37
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #6,937
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ North Wilkesboro
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: North Wilkesboro 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 MO department.
- Black Jack Fire P… (this dept) 37
- High Hilltown Township…, PA 37
- Near North Wilkesboro, NC 37
- Near Swampscott, MA 37
- Near Lamar Fire and Am…, CO 37
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Florissant, MO
- County
- St Louis County
- FDID
- 09530
Staffing vs the Missouri average
How Black Jack Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Missouri. In-state it ranks #140 of 659 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #6,937 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 95
- MO departments
- 1,128
County roster fringe
Black Jack Fire Protection District is 2.0% of St Louis County roster mass
The county lists 67 departments totaling 1,805 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 66% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
8.11 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 37 roster).
Photo-finish peer: North Wilkesboro Fire Department, NC (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 37 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MO department.