Department profile
VolunteerBuffalo Rural Fire Department
Buffalo, MO · Dallas County. Buffalo Rural Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 34 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 34
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Buffalo Rural Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Missouri average.
- Top 37%
- national personnel size
- +70%
- vs. Missouri 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.
Buffalo Rural Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Buffalo, MO (Dallas County), with 2 stations and 34 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,277 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #8,277 of 22,440
- MO personnel rank #173 of 659
- 5.88 stations per 100 personnel
- 8 other listed departments in Dallas County
Buffalo Rural Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
34 Top 37% higher than 63% 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 03006 · Buffalo Rural Fire Department, MO 34 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 34
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #8,277
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Frederick
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Frederick Fire Department, SD (+ 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 MO department.
- Buffalo Rural (this dept) 34
- High Jerusalem Townshi…, NC 34
- Near Frederick, SD 34
- Near Cooleemee Volunte…, NC 34
- Near William R Davie V…, NC 34
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Buffalo, MO
- County
- Dallas County
- FDID
- 03006
Staffing vs the Missouri average
How Buffalo Rural Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Missouri. In-state it ranks #173 of 659 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,277 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 95
- MO departments
- 1,128
County roster geometry
Dallas County HIFLD mix around Buffalo Rural Fire Department
Dallas County: 10 departments, 197 personnel (8 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 40% of departments. County / state rollup.
5.88 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 34 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Frederick Fire Department, SD (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 34 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MO department.