Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Kearney Fire and Rescue Protection District

Kearney, MO · Clay County. Kearney Fire and Rescue Protection District is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 61 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.

61
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Kearney Fire and Rescue Protection District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Missouri average.

Top 11%
national personnel size
+205%
vs. Missouri 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
74/100
Kearney Fire and Rescue Protection 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 A
61 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness C
2 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
61 personnel · 1 station

Kearney Fire and Rescue Protection District is a Volunteer department serving Kearney, MO (Clay County), with 1 station and 61 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,505 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,505 of 22,440
  • MO personnel rank #39 of 659
  • 1.64 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 10 other listed departments in Clay County

Kearney Fire and Rescue Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution

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

61 Top 11% higher than 89% 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 02401 · Kearney Fire and Rescue Protection District, MO 61 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MID 61
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #2,505
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Windsor Locks
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Windsor Locks Fire Department, CT (+ 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 MO department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Kearney, MO
Ambulances
2
FDID
02401

Staffing vs the Missouri average

How Kearney Fire and Rescue Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Missouri. In-state it ranks #39 of 659 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,505 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 205% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
95
MO departments
1,128

County roster geometry

Clay County HIFLD mix around Kearney Fire and Rescue Protection District

Clay County: 15 departments, 387 personnel (5 volunteer / 5 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 100% of departments. County / state rollup.

1.64 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 61 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Windsor Locks Fire Department, CT (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 61 personnel

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