Department profile
OtherCentralia Fire Department
Centralia, MO · Boone County. Centralia Fire Department is a fire department, 2 stations and 20 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 20
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Centralia Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount in line with the Missouri average.
- 25th pct.
- national personnel size
- +0%
- 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.
Centralia Fire Department is a fire department serving Centralia, MO (Boone County), with 2 stations and 20 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #16,823 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #16,823 of 22,440
- MO personnel rank #415 of 659
- 10.00 stations per 100 personnel
- 4 other listed departments in Boone County
Centralia Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
20 Top 75% higher than 25% 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 01003 · Centralia Fire Department, MO 20 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 20
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #16,823
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Branch Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Branch Volunteer Fire Department, LA (+ 0 personnel)
Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every MO department.
- Centralia (this dept) 20
- High Eastham, MA 20
- Near Branch Volunteer, LA 20
- Near Winnabow Voluntee…, NC 20
- Near Newtonville Volun…, NJ 20
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Centralia, MO
- County
- Boone County
- FDID
- 01003
Staffing vs the Missouri average
How Centralia Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Missouri. In-state it ranks #415 of 659 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #16,823 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 fringe
Centralia Fire Department is 4.0% of Boone County roster mass
The county lists 8 departments totaling 494 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 75% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
10.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 20 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Branch Volunteer Fire Department, LA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 20 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MO department.