Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Fort Osage Fire Protection District

Buckner, MO · Jackson County. Fort Osage Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 36 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.

36
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Fort Osage Fire Protection District pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Missouri average.

Top 33%
national personnel size
+80%
vs. Missouri 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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
17/100
Fort Osage Fire Protection District

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
12 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness D
1 vehicles per station (national median 2)
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
36 personnel · 3 stations

Fort Osage Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department serving Buckner, MO (Jackson County), with 3 stations and 36 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,299 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #7,299 of 22,440
  • MO personnel rank #151 of 659
  • 8.33 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 12 other listed departments in Jackson County

Fort Osage Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution

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

36 Top 33% higher than 67% 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 04803 · Fort Osage Fire Protection District, MO 36 personnel · 3 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 36
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #7,299
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Green Oak Township
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Green Oak Township Fire Department, MI (+ 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 MO department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Buckner, MO
Ambulances
3
FDID
04803

Staffing vs the Missouri average

How Fort Osage Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Missouri. In-state it ranks #151 of 659 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,299 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 80% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
95
MO departments
1,128

County roster fringe

Fort Osage Fire Protection District is 2.1% of Jackson County roster mass

The county lists 19 departments totaling 1,718 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 89% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

8.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 36 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Green Oak Township Fire Department, MI (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide career peers near 36 personnel

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