Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Lyons Volunteer Fire and Rescue

Lyons, NE · Burt County. Lyons Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 36 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.

36
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Lyons Volunteer Fire and Rescue pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount more than double the Nebraska average.

Top 33%
national personnel size
+100%
vs. Nebraska 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
78/100
Lyons Volunteer Fire and Rescue

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
36 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
36 personnel · 1 station

Lyons Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Lyons, NE (Burt County), with 1 station and 36 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,369 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #7,369 of 22,440
  • NE personnel rank #51 of 258
  • 2.78 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 4 other listed departments in Burt County

Lyons Volunteer Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

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

36 Top 33% higher than 67% 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 31003 · Lyons Volunteer Fire and Rescue, NE 36 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 36
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #7,369
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Blue Ash Fire Dep…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Blue Ash Fire Department - North Station, OH (+ 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 NE department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Lyons, NE
FDID
31003

Staffing vs the Nebraska average

How Lyons Volunteer Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Nebraska. In-state it ranks #51 of 258 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,369 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 100% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
26
NE departments
511

County roster weight

Lyons Volunteer Fire and Rescue carries 25.7% of Burt County HIFLD personnel

Among 5 listed departments (140 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 80% of the county count. County / state rollup.

2.78 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 36 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Blue Ash Fire Department - North Station, OH (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 36 personnel

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