Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Lower Saint Croix Valley Fire Department

Lakeland, MN · Washington County. Lower Saint Croix Valley Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 28 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.

28
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Lower Saint Croix Valley Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount above the Minnesota average.

48th pct.
national personnel size
+33%
vs. Minnesota 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
62/100
Lower Saint Croix Valley 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
28 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
28 personnel · 1 station

Lower Saint Croix Valley Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Lakeland, MN (Washington County), with 1 station and 28 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #11,604 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #11,604 of 22,440
  • MN personnel rank #205 of 614
  • 3.57 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 14 other listed departments in Washington County

Lower Saint Croix Valley Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

28 Top 52% higher than 48% 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 82116 · Lower Saint Croix Valley Fire Department, MN 28 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 28
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #11,604
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Walcott
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Walcott Fire Department, IA (+ 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 MN department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Lakeland, MN
FDID
82116

Staffing vs the Minnesota average

How Lower Saint Croix Valley Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Minnesota. In-state it ranks #205 of 614 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #11,604 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 33% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
48
MN departments
883

County roster fringe

Lower Saint Croix Valley Fire Department is 5.2% of Washington County roster mass

The county lists 19 departments totaling 538 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 42% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.57 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 28 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Walcott Fire Department, IA (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 28 personnel

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