Department profile
Career (Paid)Fulton Fire Department
Fulton, MO · Callaway County. Fulton Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 35 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 35
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Fulton Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Missouri average.
- Top 35%
- national personnel size
- +75%
- vs. Missouri average
- 1
- station
- $1,448,345
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Fulton Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Fulton, MO (Callaway County), with 1 station and 35 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,786 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,448,345.
- National personnel rank #7,786 of 22,440
- MO personnel rank #161 of 659
- 2.86 stations per 100 personnel
- 9 other listed departments in Callaway County
Fulton Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
35 Top 35% higher than 65% 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 01402 · Fulton Fire Department, MO 35 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 35
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #7,786
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Middlebury Volunt…
- FEMA-MID $1.4M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Middlebury Volunteer Fire Department, VT (+ 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.
- Fulton (this dept) 35
- High Enola Volunteer, NC 35
- Near Middlebury Volunt…, VT 35
- Near Emmett Township D…, MI 35
- Near Jackson Park Volu…, NC 35
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Fulton, MO
- County
- Callaway County
- FDID
- 01402
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | EMW2016FO00946 | $182,858 |
| 2009 | EMW-2009-FC-0049 | $1,265,487 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Missouri average
How Fulton Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Missouri. In-state it ranks #161 of 659 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,786 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 95
- MO departments
- 1,128
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Callaway County
County mix is mostly volunteer (6 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
2.86 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 35 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Middlebury Volunteer Fire Department, VT (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 35 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MO department.