Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Grafton Fire Department / Grafton Rural Fire Protection District

Grafton, ND · Walsh County. Grafton Fire Department / Grafton Rural Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department, 2 stations 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
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Grafton Fire Department / Grafton Rural Fire Protection District pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the North Dakota average.

Top 40%
national personnel size
+45%
vs. North Dakota 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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
25/100
Grafton Fire Department / Grafton Rural 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 D
16 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
32 personnel · 2 stations

Grafton Fire Department / Grafton Rural Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department serving Grafton, ND (Walsh County), with 2 stations and 32 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #9,088 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #9,088 of 22,440
  • ND personnel rank #63 of 249
  • 6.25 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 11 other listed departments in Walsh County

Grafton Fire Department / Grafton Rural Fire Protection District 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 50139 · Grafton Fire Department / Grafton Rural Fire Protection District, ND 32 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 32
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #9,088
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Magee Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Magee Volunteer Fire Department, NY (+ 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 ND department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Grafton, ND
FDID
50139

Staffing vs the North Dakota average

How Grafton Fire Department / Grafton Rural Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Dakota. In-state it ranks #63 of 249 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,088 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 45% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
13
ND departments
338

County roster geometry

Walsh County HIFLD mix around Grafton Fire Department / Grafton Rural Fire Protection District

Walsh County: 13 departments, 257 personnel (11 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 62% of departments. County / state rollup.

6.25 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 32 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Magee Volunteer Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 32 personnel

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