Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Center Township Fire Department

Appleton, WI · Outagamie County. Center Township Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 41 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.

41
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Center Township Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Wisconsin average.

Top 25%
national personnel size
+46%
vs. Wisconsin average
1
station

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
PlainFireData Composite Score
84/100
Center Township Fire Department

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.

Staffing capacity A
41 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
41 personnel · 1 station

Center Township Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Appleton, WI (Outagamie County), with 1 station and 41 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,668 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #5,668 of 22,440
  • WI personnel rank #175 of 695
  • 2.44 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 22 other listed departments in Outagamie County

Center Township Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

41 Top 25% higher than 75% 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 44180 · Center Township Fire Department, WI 41 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 41
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #5,668
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ National Aeronaut…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Ames Fire Department-Dod, 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 WI department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Appleton, WI
FDID
44180

Staffing vs the Wisconsin average

How Center Township Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Wisconsin. In-state it ranks #175 of 695 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,668 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 46% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
54
WI departments
961

County roster fringe

Center Township Fire Department is 5.2% of Outagamie County roster mass

The county lists 25 departments totaling 785 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 80% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.44 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 41 roster).

Photo-finish peer: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Ames Fire Department-Dod, CA (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 41 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every WI department.