Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderCouncil Bluffs Fire Department
Council Bluffs, IA · Pottawattamie County. Council Bluffs Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 105 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.
- 105
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Council Bluffs Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Iowa average.
- Top 4%
- national personnel size
- +425%
- vs. Iowa average
- 5
- 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.
Council Bluffs Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Council Bluffs, IA (Pottawattamie County), with 5 stations and 105 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #842 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #842 of 22,440
- IA personnel rank #5 of 589
- 4.76 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 14 other listed departments in Pottawattamie County
Council Bluffs Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
105 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 78004 · Council Bluffs Fire Department, IA 105 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 105
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #842
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Big Elm Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Big Elm Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+ 0 personnel)
Career/paid 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.
- Council Bluffs (this dept) 105
- High American Fork Fir…, UT 105
- Near Big Elm Volunteer, PA 105
- Near Citizens Fire Com…, PA 105
- Near City of Lawrence, IN 105
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Council Bluffs, IA
- County
- Pottawattamie County
- FDID
- 78004
Staffing vs the Iowa average
How Council Bluffs Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Iowa. In-state it ranks #5 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #842 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 39
- IA departments
- 810
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Pottawattamie County
County mix is mostly volunteer (13 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
4.76 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 105 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Big Elm Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 105 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IA department.