Department profile
Career (Paid)Minot Fire Department
Minot, ND · Ward County. Minot Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 50 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 50
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Minot Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the North Dakota average.
- Top 18%
- national personnel size
- +127%
- vs. North Dakota average
- 3
- stations
- $272,728
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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 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.
Minot Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Minot, ND (Ward County), with 3 stations and 50 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,970 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $272,728.
- National personnel rank #3,970 of 22,440
- ND personnel rank #18 of 249
- 6.00 stations per 100 personnel
- 11 other listed departments in Ward County
Minot Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
50 Top 18% higher than 82% 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 51237 · Minot Fire Department, ND 50 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 50
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #3,970
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ South Corning Vol…
- FEMA-LIGHT $273K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: South Corning Volunteer Fire Department, NY (+ 0 personnel)
Career/paid 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 ND department.
- Minot (this dept) 50
- High Austintown, OH 50
- Near South Corning Vol…, NY 50
- Near Hammondsport Volu…, NY 50
- Near Cold Spring Harbo…, NY 50
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Minot, ND
- County
- Ward County
- FDID
- 51237
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | EMW2016FO05729 | $272,728 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the North Dakota average
How Minot Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Dakota. In-state it ranks #18 of 249 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,970 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 13
- ND departments
- 338
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Ward County
County mix is mostly volunteer (8 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
6.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 50 roster).
Photo-finish peer: South Corning Volunteer Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 50 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every ND department.