Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderGladstone Fire Department
Gladstone, MO · Clay County. Gladstone Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 43 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.
- 43
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Gladstone Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Missouri average.
- Top 24%
- national personnel size
- +115%
- vs. Missouri average
- 2
- 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.
Gladstone Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Gladstone, MO (Clay County), with 2 stations and 43 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,298 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,298 of 22,440
- MO personnel rank #103 of 659
- 4.65 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 10 other listed departments in Clay County
Gladstone Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
43 Top 24% higher than 76% 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 02407 · Gladstone Fire Department, MO 43 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 43
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,298
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Marine Corp Air S…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Marine Corp Air Station Cherry Point Fire Department, NC (+ 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.
- Gladstone (this dept) 43
- High Godwin-Falcon, NC 43
- Near Marine Corp Air S…, NC 43
- Near Rainbow Volunteer…, PA 43
- Near Harrington Park, NJ 43
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Gladstone, MO
- County
- Clay County
- Ambulances
- 2
- FDID
- 02407
Staffing vs the Missouri average
How Gladstone Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Missouri. In-state it ranks #103 of 659 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,298 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 95
- MO departments
- 1,128
County roster geometry
Clay County HIFLD mix around Gladstone Fire Department
Clay County: 15 departments, 387 personnel (5 volunteer / 5 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 100% of departments. County / state rollup.
4.65 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 43 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Marine Corp Air Station Cherry Point Fire Department, NC (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 43 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MO department.