Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderKansas City Missouri Fire Department
Kansas City, MO · Jackson County. Kansas City Missouri Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 34 stations and 1,008 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.
- 1,008
- Total personnel
- 34
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Kansas City Missouri Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Missouri average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +4940%
- vs. Missouri average
- 34
- 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.
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.
Kansas City Missouri Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Kansas City, MO (Jackson County), with 34 stations and 1,008 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #23 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #23 of 22,440
- MO personnel rank #1 of 659
- 3.37 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 12 other listed departments in Jackson County
Kansas City Missouri Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
1,008 Top 1% higher than 99%+ 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 04813 · Kansas City Missouri Fire Department, MO 1,008 personnel · 34 stations
PERS-METRO · STA-SYSTEM · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-METRO 1,008
- STA-SYSTEM 34 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #23
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ San Diego Fire -…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: San Diego Fire - Rescue Department, CA (+ 10 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 MO department.
- High Oklahoma City, OK 1,031
- Near Cleveland, OH 1,028
- Near San Diego Fire -…, CA 1,018
- Kansas City Misso… (this dept) 1,008
- Low Howard County, MD 982
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Kansas City, MO
- County
- Jackson County
- FDID
- 04813
Staffing vs the Missouri average
How Kansas City Missouri Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Missouri. In-state it ranks #1 of 659 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #23 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 34
- State fire deaths/yr
- 95
- MO departments
- 1,128
County roster weight
Kansas City Missouri Fire Department carries 58.7% of Jackson County HIFLD personnel
Among 19 listed departments (1,718 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 32% of the county count. County / state rollup.
3.37 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (34 stations / 1,008 roster).
Photo-finish peer: San Diego Fire - Rescue Department, CA (+10 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 1,008 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MO department.