Department profile

Volunteer

Keewatin Fire Department

Keewatin, MN · Itasca County. Keewatin Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 17 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

17
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Keewatin Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Minnesota average.

15th pct.
national personnel size
-19%
vs. Minnesota 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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
28/100
Keewatin Fire 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 D
17 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
17 personnel · 1 station

Keewatin Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Keewatin, MN (Itasca County), with 1 station and 17 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #19,165 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #19,165 of 22,440
  • MN personnel rank #539 of 614
  • 5.88 stations per 100 personnel
  • 18 other listed departments in Itasca County

Keewatin Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

17 Top 85% higher than 15% 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 31108 · Keewatin Fire Department, MN 17 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 17
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-LOWER #19,165
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Stigler
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Stigler Fire Department, OK (+ 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 MN department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Keewatin, MN
FDID
31108

Staffing vs the Minnesota average

How Keewatin Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Minnesota. In-state it ranks #539 of 614 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #19,165 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 19% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
48
MN departments
883

County roster fringe

Keewatin Fire Department is 6.3% of Itasca County roster mass

The county lists 19 departments totaling 270 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 21% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

5.88 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 17 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Stigler Fire Department, OK (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 17 personnel

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