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Earlton Fire Department

Chanute, KS · Neosho County. Earlton Fire Department is a fire department, 1 station and 8 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

8
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Not reported
EMS service

The verdict

Earlton Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Kansas average.

1st pct.
national personnel size
-64%
vs. Kansas 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
7/100
Earlton 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 F
8 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
8 personnel · 1 station

Earlton Fire Department is a fire department serving Chanute, KS (Neosho County), with 1 station and 8 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,199 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #22,199 of 22,440
  • KS personnel rank #421 of 431
  • 12.50 stations per 100 personnel
  • 6 other listed departments in Neosho County

Earlton Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

8 Top 99% higher than 1% 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 NO302 · Earlton Fire Department, KS 8 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-UNK · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-MICRO 8
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
  • EMS-UNK EMS pending
  • RANK-LOWER #22,199
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Alamo Springs Vol…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Alamo Springs Volunteer Fire Department, TX (+ 0 personnel)

Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.

Personnel neighbourhood

Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every KS department.

Department Profile

Type
Location
Chanute, KS
FDID
NO302

Staffing vs the Kansas average

How Earlton Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Kansas. In-state it ranks #421 of 431 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,199 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 64% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
45
KS departments
773

County roster fringe

Earlton Fire Department is 7.2% of Neosho County roster mass

The county lists 7 departments totaling 111 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 0% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

12.50 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 8 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Alamo Springs Volunteer Fire Department, TX (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

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Nationwide departments near 8 personnel

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