Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Knoxville Township Rural Fire Department

Knoxville, IA · Marion County. Knoxville Township Rural Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 31 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.

31
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Knoxville Township Rural Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Iowa average.

Top 43%
national personnel size
+55%
vs. Iowa 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
70/100
Knoxville Township Rural 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 B
31 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
31 personnel · 1 station

Knoxville Township Rural Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Knoxville, IA (Marion County), with 1 station and 31 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #9,611 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #9,611 of 22,440
  • IA personnel rank #142 of 589
  • 3.23 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 8 other listed departments in Marion County

Knoxville Township Rural Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

31 Top 43% higher than 57% 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 63006 · Knoxville Township Rural Fire Department, IA 31 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 31
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #9,611
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Midway Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Midway Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+ 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 IA department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Knoxville, IA
FDID
63006

Staffing vs the Iowa average

How Knoxville Township Rural Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Iowa. In-state it ranks #142 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,611 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 55% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
39
IA departments
810

County roster geometry

Marion County HIFLD mix around Knoxville Township Rural Fire Department

Marion County: 9 departments, 172 personnel (7 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 89% of departments. County / state rollup.

3.23 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 31 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Midway Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+0 personnel).

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

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Pleasantville Emergency Services
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 31 personnel

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