Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Dilworth Volunteer Fire Department

Dilworth, MN · Clay County. Dilworth Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 29 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.

29
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Dilworth Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Minnesota average.

Top 49%
national personnel size
+38%
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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
64/100
Dilworth Volunteer Fire Department

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 B
29 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
29 personnel · 1 station

Dilworth Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Dilworth, MN (Clay County), with 1 station and 29 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #11,012 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #11,012 of 22,440
  • MN personnel rank #186 of 614
  • 3.45 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 9 other listed departments in Clay County

Dilworth Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

29 Top 49% higher than 51% 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 14102 · Dilworth Volunteer Fire Department, MN 29 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 29
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #11,012
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Juniata Rural Fir…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Juniata Rural Fire District, NE (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Dilworth, MN
FDID
14102

Staffing vs the Minnesota average

How Dilworth Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Minnesota. In-state it ranks #186 of 614 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #11,012 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 38% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
48
MN departments
883

County roster geometry

Clay County HIFLD mix around Dilworth Volunteer Fire Department

Clay County: 10 departments, 201 personnel (7 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 60% of departments. County / state rollup.

3.45 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 29 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Juniata Rural Fire District, NE (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 29 personnel

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