Department profile

Volunteer

Minburn Volunteer Fire Department

Minburn, IA · Dallas County. Minburn Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 8 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

8
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Not reported
EMS service

The verdict

Minburn Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Iowa average.

1st pct.
national personnel size
-60%
vs. Iowa 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
7/100
Minburn Volunteer 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
8 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
8 personnel · 1 station

Minburn Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Minburn, IA (Dallas County), with 1 station and 8 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,229 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #22,229 of 22,440
  • IA personnel rank #588 of 589
  • 12.50 stations per 100 personnel
  • 13 other listed departments in Dallas County

Minburn Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

8 Top 99% higher than 1% 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 25009 · Minburn Volunteer Fire Department, IA 8 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MICRO 8
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-UNK EMS pending
  • RANK-LOWER #22,229
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Long Valley / Ord…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Long Valley / Orderville Fire Department, UT (+ 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 IA department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Minburn, IA
FDID
25009

Staffing vs the Iowa average

How Minburn Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Iowa. In-state it ranks #588 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,229 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 60% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
39
IA departments
810

County roster fringe

Minburn Volunteer Fire Department is 3.0% of Dallas County roster mass

The county lists 15 departments totaling 268 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 67% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

12.50 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 8 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Long Valley / Orderville Fire Department, UT (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 8 personnel

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