Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Great Falls Fire Rescue

Great Falls, MT · Cascade County. Great Falls Fire Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 67 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.

67
Total personnel
4
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Great Falls Fire Rescue pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Montana average.

Top 9%
national personnel size
+347%
vs. Montana average
4
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
28/100
Great Falls Fire Rescue

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
16.8 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
67 personnel · 4 stations

Great Falls Fire Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving Great Falls, MT (Cascade County), with 4 stations and 67 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,092 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,092 of 22,440
  • MT personnel rank #9 of 227
  • 5.97 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 18 other listed departments in Cascade County

Great Falls Fire Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

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

67 Top 9% higher than 91% 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 02001 · Great Falls Fire Rescue, MT 67 personnel · 4 stations

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

  • PERS-MID 67
  • STA-FEW 4 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #2,092
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Jackson
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Jackson Fire Department, AL (+ 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 MT department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Great Falls, MT
FDID
02001

Staffing vs the Montana average

How Great Falls Fire Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Montana. In-state it ranks #9 of 227 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,092 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 347% above the state average
Stations
4
State fire deaths/yr
19
MT departments
416

County staffing outlier

Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Cascade County

County mix is mostly volunteer (10 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.

5.97 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 67 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Jackson Fire Department, AL (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide career peers near 67 personnel

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