Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderMonarch Fire Protection District
Chesterfield, MO · St Louis County. Monarch Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 122 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.
- 122
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Monarch Fire Protection District pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Missouri average.
- Top 3%
- national personnel size
- +510%
- vs. Missouri average
- 5
- stations
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.
Monarch Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department serving Chesterfield, MO (St Louis County), with 5 stations and 122 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #657 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #657 of 22,440
- MO personnel rank #10 of 659
- 4.10 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 52 other listed departments in St Louis County
Monarch Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
122 Top 3% higher than 97% 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 09521 · Monarch Fire Protection District, MO 122 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 122
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #657
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Waterloo Fire and…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Waterloo Fire and Rescue, IA (+ 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 MO department.
- Monarch Fire Prot… (this dept) 122
- High Lakewood Township, NJ 122
- Near Waterloo Fire and…, IA 122
- Near East Haven, CT 122
- Near Carroll County Fi…, MD 122
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Chesterfield, MO
- County
- St Louis County
- FDID
- 09521
Staffing vs the Missouri average
How Monarch Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Missouri. In-state it ranks #10 of 659 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #657 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 95
- MO departments
- 1,128
County roster fringe
Monarch Fire Protection District is 6.8% of St Louis County roster mass
The county lists 67 departments totaling 1,805 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 66% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.10 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 122 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Waterloo Fire and Rescue, IA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 122 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MO department.