Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderFrench Township Volunteer Fire Department
Side Lake, MN · St Louis County. French Township Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 32 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.
- 32
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
French Township Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Minnesota average.
- Top 40%
- national personnel size
- +52%
- vs. Minnesota 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.
French Township Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Side Lake, MN (St Louis County), with 1 station and 32 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #9,079 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #9,079 of 22,440
- MN personnel rank #126 of 614
- 3.13 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 77 other listed departments in St Louis County
French Township Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
32 Top 40% higher than 60% 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 69125 · French Township Volunteer Fire Department, MN 32 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 32
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-MID #9,079
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Redgranite Area F…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Redgranite Area Fire District, WI (+ 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 MN department.
- French Township V… (this dept) 32
- High Fox, AR 32
- Near Redgranite Area F…, WI 32
- Near Plainfield, WI 32
- Near Potlatch Corporat…, ID 32
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Side Lake, MN
- County
- St Louis County
- FDID
- 69125
Staffing vs the Minnesota average
How French Township Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Minnesota. In-state it ranks #126 of 614 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,079 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 48
- MN departments
- 883
County roster fringe
French Township Volunteer Fire Department is 2.7% of St Louis County roster mass
The county lists 86 departments totaling 1,199 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 67% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.13 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 32 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Redgranite Area Fire District, WI (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 32 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MN department.