Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Hallam Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department

Hallam, NE · Lancaster County. Hallam Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 30 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.

30
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Hallam Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Nebraska average.

Top 46%
national personnel size
+67%
vs. Nebraska 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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
67/100
Hallam Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department

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 B
30 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
30 personnel · 1 station

Hallam Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department is a Volunteer department serving Hallam, NE (Lancaster County), with 1 station and 30 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #10,215 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #10,215 of 22,440
  • NE personnel rank #107 of 258
  • 3.33 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 14 other listed departments in Lancaster County

Hallam Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

30 Top 46% higher than 54% 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 02004 · Hallam Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department, NE 30 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 30
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #10,215
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Jacinto Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Jacinto Volunteer Fire Department, MS (+ 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 NE department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Hallam, NE
FDID
02004

Staffing vs the Nebraska average

How Hallam Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Nebraska. In-state it ranks #107 of 258 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #10,215 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 67% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
26
NE departments
511

County roster fringe

Hallam Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department is 5.8% of Lancaster County roster mass

The county lists 16 departments totaling 518 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 94% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 30 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Jacinto Volunteer Fire Department, MS (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 30 personnel

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