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Miller Fire Department

Reading, KS · Lyon County. Miller Fire Department is a fire department, 1 station and 11 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

11
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Not reported
EMS service

The verdict

Miller Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Kansas average.

3rd pct.
national personnel size
-50%
vs. Kansas 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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
9/100
Miller 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 F
11 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
11 personnel · 1 station

Miller Fire Department is a fire department serving Reading, KS (Lyon County), with 1 station and 11 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #21,752 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #21,752 of 22,440
  • KS personnel rank #377 of 431
  • 9.09 stations per 100 personnel
  • 3 other listed departments in Lyon County

Miller Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

11 Top 97% higher than 3% 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 LY311 · Miller Fire Department, KS 11 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-UNK · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-MICRO 11
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
  • EMS-UNK EMS pending
  • RANK-LOWER #21,752
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ 156th Cuerpo Emer…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: 156th Cuerpo Emergencias Servicios Fire Department, PR (+ 0 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
Reading, KS
FDID
LY311

Staffing vs the Kansas average

How Miller Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Kansas. In-state it ranks #377 of 431 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #21,752 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 50% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
45
KS departments
773

County roster fringe

Miller Fire Department is 4.9% of Lyon County roster mass

The county lists 9 departments totaling 225 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 11% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

9.09 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 11 roster).

Photo-finish peer: 156th Cuerpo Emergencias Servicios Fire Department, PR (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide departments near 11 personnel

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