Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Iroquois Fire and Rescue District

Iroquois, SD · Kingsbury County. Iroquois Fire and Rescue District is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 12 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.

12
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Iroquois Fire and Rescue District pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the South Dakota average.

4th pct.
national personnel size
-40%
vs. South Dakota 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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
17/100
Iroquois Fire and Rescue 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 F
12 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness D
1 vehicles per station (national median 2)
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
12 personnel · 1 station

Iroquois Fire and Rescue District is a Volunteer department serving Iroquois, SD (Kingsbury County), with 1 station and 12 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #21,438 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #21,438 of 22,440
  • SD personnel rank #245 of 257
  • 8.33 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 5 other listed departments in Kingsbury County

Iroquois Fire and Rescue District vs. the national personnel distribution

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

12 Top 96% higher than 4% 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 42002 · Iroquois Fire and Rescue District, SD 12 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MICRO 12
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #21,438
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hamlin Township V…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Hamlin Township Volunteer Fire Department, 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 SD department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Iroquois, SD
FDID
42002

Staffing vs the South Dakota average

How Iroquois Fire and Rescue District's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Dakota. In-state it ranks #245 of 257 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #21,438 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 40% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
17
SD departments
365

County roster fringe

Iroquois Fire and Rescue District is 9.7% of Kingsbury County roster mass

The county lists 6 departments totaling 124 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 17% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

8.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 12 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Hamlin Township Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

Arlington Fire Department
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Desmet Volunteer Fire Department
De Smet · volunteer
Lake Preston Volunteer Fire Department
Lake Preston · volunteer
Oldham Volunteer Fire Department
Oldham · volunteer
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 12 personnel

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