Department profile
VolunteerCooke City Fire Department
Cooke City, MT · Park County. Cooke City Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 8 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 8
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Cooke City Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Montana average.
- 1st pct.
- national personnel size
- -47%
- vs. Montana 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.
Cooke City Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Cooke City, MT (Park County), with 2 stations and 8 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,193 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #22,193 of 22,440
- MT personnel rank #219 of 227
- 25.00 stations per 100 personnel
- 6 other listed departments in Park County
Cooke City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
8 Top 99% higher than 1% 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 49031 · Cooke City Fire Department, MT 8 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MICRO · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MICRO 8
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #22,193
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Webbers Falls Vol…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Webbers Falls Volunteer Fire Department, OK (+ 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 MT department.
- Cooke City (this dept) 8
- High Pine Burr Volunte…, MS 8
- Near Webbers Falls Vol…, OK 8
- Near Milligan Ridge Vo…, AR 8
- Near Standard Volunteer, AR 8
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Cooke City, MT
- County
- Park County
- FDID
- 49031
Staffing vs the Montana average
How Cooke City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Montana. In-state it ranks #219 of 227 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,193 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 19
- MT departments
- 416
County roster fringe
Cooke City Fire Department is 6.0% of Park County roster mass
The county lists 8 departments totaling 133 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 75% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
25.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 8 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Webbers Falls Volunteer Fire Department, OK (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 8 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MT department.