Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderClarkfield Fire Department / Clarkfield Area Ambulance
Clarkfield, MN · Yellow Medicine County. Clarkfield Fire Department / Clarkfield Area Ambulance is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 36 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.
- 36
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Clarkfield Fire Department / Clarkfield Area Ambulance pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Minnesota average.
- Top 32%
- national personnel size
- +71%
- vs. Minnesota 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 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.
Clarkfield Fire Department / Clarkfield Area Ambulance is a Volunteer department serving Clarkfield, MN (Yellow Medicine County), with 1 station and 36 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,254 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #7,254 of 22,440
- MN personnel rank #90 of 614
- 2.78 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 7 other listed departments in Yellow Medicine County
Clarkfield Fire Department / Clarkfield Area Ambulance vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
36 Top 32% higher than 68% 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 87102 · Clarkfield Fire Department / Clarkfield Area Ambulance, MN 36 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 36
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #7,254
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bloomdale Fire an…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Bloomdale Fire and Rescue, OH (+ 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.
- Clarkfield Fire D… (this dept) 36
- High Rittman, OH 36
- Near Bloomdale Fire an…, OH 36
- Near Sycamore Fire and…, OH 36
- Near Upper Sandusky, OH 36
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Clarkfield, MN
- County
- Yellow Medicine County
- FDID
- 87102
Staffing vs the Minnesota average
How Clarkfield Fire Department / Clarkfield Area Ambulance's personnel count compares to the typical department in Minnesota. In-state it ranks #90 of 614 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,254 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 48
- MN departments
- 883
County roster geometry
Yellow Medicine County HIFLD mix around Clarkfield Fire Department / Clarkfield Area Ambulance
Yellow Medicine County: 8 departments, 227 personnel (7 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 63% of departments. County / state rollup.
2.78 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 36 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Bloomdale Fire and Rescue, OH (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 36 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MN department.