Department profile
VolunteerBloomington Fire Department
Bloomington, MN · Hennepin County. Bloomington Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 6 stations and 152 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 152
- Total personnel
- 6
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Bloomington Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Minnesota average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +624%
- vs. Minnesota average
- 6
- stations
- $13,214,687
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Bloomington Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Bloomington, MN (Hennepin County), with 6 stations and 152 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #398 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $13,214,687.
- National personnel rank #398 of 22,440
- MN personnel rank #2 of 614
- 3.95 stations per 100 personnel
- 32 other listed departments in Hennepin County
Bloomington Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
152 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 27131 · Bloomington Fire Department, MN 152 personnel · 6 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 152
- STA-MULTI 6 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #398
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Scranton
- FEMA-HEAVY $13.2M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Scranton Fire Department, PA (+ 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.
- Bloomington (this dept) 152
- High Attala County, MS 152
- Near Scranton, PA 152
- Near Robert Fulton Fir…, PA 152
- Near Whitehall Townshi…, PA 152
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Bloomington, MN
- County
- Hennepin County
- FDID
- 27131
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | EMW-2023-FF-01351 | $6,942,948.66 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FF-01673 | $6,271,738.56 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Minnesota average
How Bloomington Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Minnesota. In-state it ranks #2 of 614 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #398 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 6
- State fire deaths/yr
- 48
- MN departments
- 883
County roster fringe
Bloomington Fire Department is 8.8% of Hennepin County roster mass
The county lists 45 departments totaling 1,725 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 87% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.95 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (6 stations / 152 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Scranton Fire Department, PA (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 152 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MN department.