Department profile
Career (Paid)Missoula Fire Department
Missoula, MT · Missoula County. Missoula Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 78 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 78
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Missoula Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Montana average.
- Top 7%
- national personnel size
- +420%
- vs. Montana average
- 4
- stations
- $7,053,780
- 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.
Missoula Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Missoula, MT (Missoula County), with 4 stations and 78 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,560 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $7,053,780.
- National personnel rank #1,560 of 22,440
- MT personnel rank #7 of 227
- 5.13 stations per 100 personnel
- 11 other listed departments in Missoula County
Missoula Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
78 Top 7% higher than 93% 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 04001 · Missoula Fire Department, MT 78 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 78
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #1,560
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Kalamazoo Township
- FEMA-HEAVY $7.1M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Kalamazoo Township Fire Department, MI (+ 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 MT department.
- Missoula (this dept) 78
- High Gowanda Volunteer, NY 78
- Near Kalamazoo Township, MI 78
- Near Boles Fire Protec…, MO 78
- Near Cedar Hill Fire P…, MO 78
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Missoula, MT
- County
- Missoula County
- FDID
- 04001
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | EMW-2023-FF-01815 | $7,053,780 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Montana average
How Missoula Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Montana. In-state it ranks #7 of 227 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,560 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 19
- MT departments
- 416
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Missoula County
County mix is mostly volunteer (7 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
5.13 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 78 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Kalamazoo Township Fire Department, MI (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 78 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MT department.