Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Fond Du Lac City Fire Department

Fond Du Lac, WI · Fond Du Lac County. Fond Du Lac City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 68 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.

68
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Fond Du Lac City Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Wisconsin average.

Top 9%
national personnel size
+143%
vs. Wisconsin average
3
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
47/100
Fond Du Lac City 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 C
22.7 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
68 personnel · 3 stations

Fond Du Lac City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Fond Du Lac, WI (Fond Du Lac County), with 3 stations and 68 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,036 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,036 of 22,440
  • WI personnel rank #35 of 695
  • 4.41 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 18 other listed departments in Fond Du Lac County

Fond Du Lac City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

68 Top 9% higher than 91% 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 20090 · Fond Du Lac City Fire Department, WI 68 personnel · 3 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 68
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #2,036
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ City of Arcadia
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: City of Arcadia Fire Department, CA (+ 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 WI department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Fond Du Lac, WI
FDID
20090

Staffing vs the Wisconsin average

How Fond Du Lac City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Wisconsin. In-state it ranks #35 of 695 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,036 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 143% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
54
WI departments
961

County staffing outlier

Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Fond Du Lac County

County mix is mostly volunteer (13 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.

4.41 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 68 roster).

Photo-finish peer: City of Arcadia Fire Department, CA (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

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Nationwide career peers near 68 personnel

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