Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderBrooklyn Center Fire Department - West Fire Station
Brooklyn Center, MN · Hennepin County. Brooklyn Center Fire Department - West Fire Station is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 42 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.
- 42
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Brooklyn Center Fire Department - West Fire Station pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Minnesota average.
- Top 24%
- national personnel size
- +100%
- 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.
Brooklyn Center Fire Department - West Fire Station is a Volunteer department serving Brooklyn Center, MN (Hennepin County), with 2 stations and 42 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,439 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,439 of 22,440
- MN personnel rank #64 of 614
- 4.76 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 32 other listed departments in Hennepin County
Brooklyn Center Fire Department - West Fire Station vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
42 Top 24% higher than 76% 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 27132 · Brooklyn Center Fire Department - West Fire Station, MN 42 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 42
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,439
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Dudley
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Dudley Fire Department, MA (+ 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.
- Brooklyn Center F… (this dept) 42
- High Johnson Creek Fir…, WI 42
- Near Dudley, MA 42
- Near Earlville, NY 42
- Near Conway, SC 42
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Brooklyn Center, MN
- County
- Hennepin County
- FDID
- 27132
Staffing vs the Minnesota average
How Brooklyn Center Fire Department - West Fire Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Minnesota. In-state it ranks #64 of 614 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,439 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 48
- MN departments
- 883
County roster fringe
Brooklyn Center Fire Department - West Fire Station is 2.4% 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.
4.76 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 42 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Dudley Fire Department, MA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 42 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MN department.