Department profile
VolunteerBrainerd Fire Department
Brainerd, MN · Crow Wing County. Brainerd Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 49 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 49
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Brainerd Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Minnesota average.
- Top 18%
- national personnel size
- +133%
- vs. Minnesota average
- 2
- 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.
Brainerd Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Brainerd, MN (Crow Wing County), with 2 stations and 49 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,130 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,130 of 22,440
- MN personnel rank #43 of 614
- 4.08 stations per 100 personnel
- 13 other listed departments in Crow Wing County
Brainerd 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 18314 · Brainerd Fire Department, MN 49 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 49
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #4,130
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ City of Monrovia
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: City of Monrovia Fire Department, CA (+ 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.
- Brainerd (this dept) 49
- High Hockessin Fire Co…, DE 49
- Near City of Monrovia, CA 49
- Near Sherborn Fire Res…, MA 49
- Near Menomonie, WI 49
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Brainerd, MN
- County
- Crow Wing County
- FDID
- 18314
Staffing vs the Minnesota average
How Brainerd Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Minnesota. In-state it ranks #43 of 614 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,130 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 48
- MN departments
- 883
County roster geometry
Crow Wing County HIFLD mix around Brainerd Fire Department
Crow Wing County: 14 departments, 271 personnel (10 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 0% of departments. County / state rollup.
4.08 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 49 roster).
Photo-finish peer: City of Monrovia Fire Department, CA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 49 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MN department.