Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderHales Corners Fire Department
Hales Corners, WI · Milwaukee County. Hales Corners Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station 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
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Hales Corners Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Wisconsin average.
- Top 24%
- national personnel size
- +54%
- vs. Wisconsin 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.
Hales Corners Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Hales Corners, WI (Milwaukee County), with 1 station and 43 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,305 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,305 of 22,440
- WI personnel rank #151 of 695
- 2.33 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 14 other listed departments in Milwaukee County
Hales Corners 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 40160 · Hales Corners Fire Department, WI 43 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 43
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,305
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Harveys Lake Fire…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Harveys Lake Fire and Ambulance Company, PA (+ 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 WI department.
- Hales Corners (this dept) 43
- High Berlin Volunteer, NY 43
- Near Harveys Lake Fire…, PA 43
- Near Foster City, CA 43
- Near Presidio Fire and…, CA 43
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Hales Corners, WI
- County
- Milwaukee County
- FDID
- 40160
Staffing vs the Wisconsin average
How Hales Corners Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Wisconsin. In-state it ranks #151 of 695 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,305 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 54
- WI departments
- 961
County roster fringe
Hales Corners Fire Department is 2.4% of Milwaukee County roster mass
The county lists 24 departments totaling 1,819 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 92% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 43 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Harveys Lake Fire and Ambulance Company, PA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 43 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every WI department.