Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Lankin City Volunteer Fire Department

Lankin, ND · Walsh County. Lankin City Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 12 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.

12
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Lankin City Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the North Dakota average.

4th pct.
national personnel size
-45%
vs. North Dakota 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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
10/100
Lankin City Volunteer 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 F
12 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
12 personnel · 1 station

Lankin City Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Lankin, ND (Walsh County), with 1 station and 12 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #21,453 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #21,453 of 22,440
  • ND personnel rank #244 of 249
  • 8.33 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 11 other listed departments in Walsh County

Lankin City Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

12 Top 96% higher than 4% 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 50196 · Lankin City Volunteer Fire Department, ND 12 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MICRO 12
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #21,453
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Redland
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Redland Fire Department, AR (+ 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 ND department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Lankin, ND
FDID
50196

Staffing vs the North Dakota average

How Lankin City Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Dakota. In-state it ranks #244 of 249 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #21,453 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 45% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
13
ND departments
338

County roster fringe

Lankin City Volunteer Fire Department is 4.7% of Walsh County roster mass

The county lists 13 departments totaling 257 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 62% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

8.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 12 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Redland Fire Department, AR (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 12 personnel

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