Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderDE Pere Fire and Rescue
De Pere, WI · Brown County. DE Pere Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 50 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.
- 50
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
DE Pere Fire and Rescue pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Wisconsin average.
- Top 17%
- national personnel size
- +79%
- vs. Wisconsin average
- 2
- stations
- $210,535
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
DE Pere Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving De Pere, WI (Brown County), with 2 stations and 50 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,856 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $210,535.
- National personnel rank #3,856 of 22,440
- WI personnel rank #91 of 695
- 4.00 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 19 other listed departments in Brown County
DE Pere Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
50 Top 17% higher than 83% 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 05010 · DE Pere Fire and Rescue, WI 50 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 50
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #3,856
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Great Valley
- FEMA-LIGHT $211K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Great Valley Fire Department, NY (+ 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 WI department.
- DE Pere Fire and… (this dept) 50
- High Jenny Lind Fire P…, CA 50
- Near Great Valley, NY 50
- Near Denton Volunteer…, MD 50
- Near Westons Mills, NY 50
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- De Pere, WI
- County
- Brown County
- FDID
- 05010
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | EMW2011FO00895 | $210,535 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Wisconsin average
How DE Pere Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Wisconsin. In-state it ranks #91 of 695 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,856 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 54
- WI departments
- 961
County roster fringe
DE Pere Fire and Rescue is 6.8% of Brown County roster mass
The county lists 25 departments totaling 733 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 72% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 50 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Great Valley Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 50 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every WI department.