Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Lees Summit Fire Department

Lees Summit, MO · Jackson County. Lees Summit Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 6 stations and 116 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.

116
Total personnel
6
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Lees Summit Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Missouri average.

Top 3%
national personnel size
+480%
vs. Missouri average
6
stations

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
Lees Summit 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
19.3 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness F
0.8 vehicles per station (national median 2)
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
116 personnel · 6 stations

Lees Summit Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Lees Summit, MO (Jackson County), with 6 stations and 116 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #720 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #720 of 22,440
  • MO personnel rank #12 of 659
  • 5.17 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 12 other listed departments in Jackson County

Lees Summit Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

116 Top 3% higher than 97% 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 04806 · Lees Summit Fire Department, MO 116 personnel · 6 stations

PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 116
  • STA-MULTI 6 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #720
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Coweta County
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Coweta County Fire Department, GA (+ 0 personnel)

Career/paid 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 MO department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Lees Summit, MO
Ambulances
5
FDID
04806

Staffing vs the Missouri average

How Lees Summit Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Missouri. In-state it ranks #12 of 659 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #720 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 480% above the state average
Stations
6
State fire deaths/yr
95
MO departments
1,128

County roster fringe

Lees Summit Fire Department is 6.8% of Jackson County roster mass

The county lists 19 departments totaling 1,718 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 89% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

5.17 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (6 stations / 116 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Coweta County Fire Department, GA (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

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Nationwide career peers near 116 personnel

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