Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderDuluth Fire Department
Duluth, MN · St Louis County. Duluth Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 9 stations and 134 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.
- 134
- Total personnel
- 9
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Duluth Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Minnesota average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +538%
- vs. Minnesota average
- 9
- 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.
Duluth Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Duluth, MN (St Louis County), with 9 stations and 134 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #530 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #530 of 22,440
- MN personnel rank #3 of 614
- 6.72 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 77 other listed departments in St Louis County
Duluth Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
134 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 69218 · Duluth Fire Department, MN 134 personnel · 9 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 134
- STA-MULTI 9 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #530
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Jasper County
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Jasper County Fire Department, SC (+ 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 MN department.
- Duluth (this dept) 134
- High Saint Joseph, MO 134
- Near Jasper County, SC 134
- Near Farmington Hills, MI 134
- Near Parkwood Volunteer, NC 134
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Duluth, MN
- County
- St Louis County
- FDID
- 69218
Staffing vs the Minnesota average
How Duluth Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Minnesota. In-state it ranks #3 of 614 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #530 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 9
- State fire deaths/yr
- 48
- MN departments
- 883
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy St Louis County
County mix is mostly volunteer (46 volunteer / 3 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
6.72 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (9 stations / 134 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Jasper County Fire Department, SC (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 134 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MN department.