Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Centralia Peosta Emergency Services

Peosta, IA · Dubuque County. Centralia Peosta Emergency Services is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 43 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.

43
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Centralia Peosta Emergency Services pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Iowa average.

Top 23%
national personnel size
+115%
vs. Iowa 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
87/100
Centralia Peosta Emergency Services

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
43 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
43 personnel · 1 station

Centralia Peosta Emergency Services is a Volunteer department serving Peosta, IA (Dubuque County), with 1 station and 43 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,257 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #5,257 of 22,440
  • IA personnel rank #48 of 589
  • 2.33 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 12 other listed departments in Dubuque County

Centralia Peosta Emergency Services vs. the national personnel distribution

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

43 Top 23% higher than 77% 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 31006 · Centralia Peosta Emergency Services, IA 43 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 43
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #5,257
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Gallup
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Gallup Fire Department, NM (+ 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 IA department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Peosta, IA
FDID
31006

Staffing vs the Iowa average

How Centralia Peosta Emergency Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in Iowa. In-state it ranks #48 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,257 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 115% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
39
IA departments
810

County roster fringe

Centralia Peosta Emergency Services is 9.9% of Dubuque County roster mass

The county lists 14 departments totaling 434 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 79% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 43 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Gallup Fire Department, NM (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 43 personnel

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