Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderEmerado Rural Fire Department
Emerado, ND · Grand Forks County. Emerado Rural Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 30 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.
- 30
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Emerado Rural Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the North Dakota average.
- Top 45%
- national personnel size
- +36%
- vs. North Dakota 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.
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.
Emerado Rural Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Emerado, ND (Grand Forks County), with 1 station and 30 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #10,114 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #10,114 of 22,440
- ND personnel rank #83 of 249
- 3.33 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 10 other listed departments in Grand Forks County
Emerado Rural Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
30 Top 45% higher than 55% 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 18102 · Emerado Rural Fire Department, ND 30 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 30
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-MID #10,114
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Crosby Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Crosby Volunteer Fire Department, MN (+ 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 ND department.
- Emerado Rural (this dept) 30
- High Elizabeth Avenue…, NJ 30
- Near Crosby Volunteer, MN 30
- Near Griggstown Volunt…, NJ 30
- Near Rocky River, OH 30
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Emerado, ND
- County
- Grand Forks County
- FDID
- 18102
Staffing vs the North Dakota average
How Emerado Rural Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Dakota. In-state it ranks #83 of 249 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #10,114 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 13
- ND departments
- 338
County roster fringe
Emerado Rural Fire Department is 8.5% of Grand Forks County roster mass
The county lists 13 departments totaling 353 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 85% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 30 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Crosby Volunteer Fire Department, MN (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 30 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every ND department.