Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderFargo Fire Department
Fargo, ND · Cass County. Fargo Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 88 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.
- 88
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Fargo Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the North Dakota average.
- Top 5%
- national personnel size
- +300%
- vs. North Dakota average
- 5
- 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.
Fargo Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Fargo, ND (Cass County), with 5 stations and 88 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,216 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,216 of 22,440
- ND personnel rank #3 of 249
- 5.68 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 18 other listed departments in Cass County
Fargo Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
88 Top 5% higher than 95% 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 09109 · Fargo Fire Department, ND 88 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 88
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,216
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Gloucester
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Gloucester Fire Department, MA (+ 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 ND department.
- Fargo (this dept) 88
- High City of Roswell, NM 88
- Near Gloucester, MA 88
- Near Hazlehurst, GA 88
- Near Rio Tinto Energy…, WY 88
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Fargo, ND
- County
- Cass County
- FDID
- 09109
Staffing vs the North Dakota average
How Fargo Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Dakota. In-state it ranks #3 of 249 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,216 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 13
- ND departments
- 338
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Cass County
County mix is mostly volunteer (14 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
5.68 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 88 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Gloucester Fire Department, MA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 88 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every ND department.