Department profile
VolunteerKnowles Volunteer Fire Department
Lomira, WI · Dodge County. Knowles Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 49 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 49
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Knowles Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Wisconsin average.
- Top 19%
- national personnel size
- +75%
- vs. Wisconsin 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.
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.
Knowles Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Lomira, WI (Dodge County), with 1 station and 49 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,170 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,170 of 22,440
- WI personnel rank #105 of 695
- 2.04 stations per 100 personnel
- 20 other listed departments in Dodge County
Knowles Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
49 Top 19% higher than 81% 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 14110 · Knowles Volunteer Fire Department, WI 49 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 49
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #4,170
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Turner County Eme…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Turner County Emergency Services, GA (+ 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 WI department.
- Knowles Volunteer (this dept) 49
- High North Boston Volu…, NY 49
- Near Turner County Eme…, GA 49
- Near Ketchum, ID 49
- Near Eden Volunteer, NY 49
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Lomira, WI
- County
- Dodge County
- FDID
- 14110
Staffing vs the Wisconsin average
How Knowles Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Wisconsin. In-state it ranks #105 of 695 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,170 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 54
- WI departments
- 961
County roster fringe
Knowles Volunteer Fire Department is 7.4% of Dodge County roster mass
The county lists 21 departments totaling 659 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 86% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.04 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 49 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Turner County Emergency Services, GA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 49 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every WI department.