Department profile

Volunteer

Dearborn Volunteer Fire Company

Wolf Creek, MT · Lewis And Clark County. Dearborn Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 10 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

10
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Dearborn Volunteer Fire Company pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Montana average.

3rd pct.
national personnel size
-33%
vs. Montana 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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
8/100
Dearborn Volunteer Fire Company

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 F
10 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
10 personnel · 1 station

Dearborn Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Wolf Creek, MT (Lewis And Clark County), with 1 station and 10 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #21,866 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #21,866 of 22,440
  • MT personnel rank #214 of 227
  • 10.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • 19 other listed departments in Lewis And Clark County

Dearborn Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

10 Top 97% higher than 3% 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 02013 · Dearborn Volunteer Fire Company, MT 10 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MICRO 10
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-LOWER #21,866
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Nescatunga Rural…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Nescatunga Rural Alfalfa County 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Wolf Creek, MT
FDID
02013

Staffing vs the Montana average

How Dearborn Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Montana. In-state it ranks #214 of 227 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #21,866 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 33% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
19
MT departments
416

County roster fringe

Dearborn Volunteer Fire Company is 3.5% of Lewis And Clark County roster mass

The county lists 25 departments totaling 287 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 4% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

10.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 10 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Nescatunga Rural Alfalfa County Fire Department, OK (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 10 personnel

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