Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderLees 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.
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.
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.
- Lees Summit (this dept) 116
- High Vashon Island Fir…, WA 116
- Near Coweta County, GA 116
- Near Richmond, CA 116
- Near City of Hamilton, OH 116
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Lees Summit, MO
- County
- Jackson County
- 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.
- 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
Nationwide career peers near 116 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MO department.