Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Kendallville Fire

Kendallville, IN · Noble County. Kendallville Fire is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 40 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.

40
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Kendallville Fire pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Indiana average.

Top 27%
national personnel size
+74%
vs. Indiana average
2
stations
$1,900,192
FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record

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
38/100
Kendallville Fire

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
20 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
40 personnel · 2 stations

Kendallville Fire is a Volunteer department serving Kendallville, IN (Noble County), with 2 stations and 40 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #6,099 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,900,192.

  • National personnel rank #6,099 of 22,440
  • IN personnel rank #111 of 589
  • 5.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 7 other listed departments in Noble County

Kendallville Fire vs. the national personnel distribution

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

40 Top 27% higher than 73% 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 57003 · Kendallville Fire, IN 40 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 40
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #6,099
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ North View Fire A…
  • FEMA-MID $1.9M
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: North View Fire Agency, UT (+ 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 IN department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Kendallville, IN
FDID
57003

FEMA Grant History

$0
Cumulative funding (FY2012–2024)
0
Awards
Year Award Amount
2024 EMW-2024-FG-01792 $185,304.76
2023 EMW-2023-FG-06299 $878,486.36
2023 EMW-2023-FF-00524 $263,383.54
2012 EMW-2012-FH-0014 $573,017

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the Indiana average

How Kendallville Fire's personnel count compares to the typical department in Indiana. In-state it ranks #111 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #6,099 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 74% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
94
IN departments
969

County roster geometry

Noble County HIFLD mix around Kendallville Fire

Noble County: 9 departments, 244 personnel (7 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 89% of departments. County / state rollup.

5.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 40 roster).

Photo-finish peer: North View Fire Agency, UT (+0 personnel).

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 40 personnel

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