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Lenexa Fire Department

Lenexa, KS · Johnson County. Lenexa Fire Department is a fire department, 4 stations and 169 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.

169
Total personnel
4
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Lenexa Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Kansas average.

Top 1%
national personnel size
+668%
vs. Kansas average
4
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
PlainFireData Composite Score
80/100
Lenexa 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 A
42.3 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration B
45% of personnel EMS-credentialed (national median 33.3%, among EMS-capable departments)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
169 personnel · 4 stations

Lenexa Fire Department is a fire department serving Lenexa, KS (Johnson County), with 4 stations and 169 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #325 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #325 of 22,440
  • KS personnel rank #6 of 431
  • 2.37 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 8 other listed departments in Johnson County

Lenexa Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

169 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 JO205 · Lenexa Fire Department, KS 169 personnel · 4 stations

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

  • PERS-MID 169
  • STA-FEW 4 stations
  • TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #325
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Salem
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Salem Fire Department, OR (+ 1 personnel)

Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.

Personnel neighbourhood

Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every KS department.

Department Profile

Type
Location
Lenexa, KS
FDID
JO205

Staffing vs the Kansas average

How Lenexa Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Kansas. In-state it ranks #6 of 431 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #325 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 668% above the state average
Stations
4
State fire deaths/yr
45
KS departments
773

County roster geometry

Johnson County HIFLD mix around Lenexa Fire Department

Johnson County: 21 departments, 925 personnel (0 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 38% of departments. County / state rollup.

2.37 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 169 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Salem Fire Department, OR (+1 personnel).

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

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