Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Moses Lake Fire Department

Moses Lake, WA · Grant County. Moses Lake Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 45 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.

45
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Moses Lake Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Washington average.

Top 22%
national personnel size
+22%
vs. Washington average
2
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
47/100
Moses Lake 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 C
22.5 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
45 personnel · 2 stations

Moses Lake Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Moses Lake, WA (Grant County), with 2 stations and 45 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,927 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #4,927 of 22,440
  • WA personnel rank #52 of 120
  • 4.44 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 7 other listed departments in Grant County

Moses Lake Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

45 Top 22% higher than 78% 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 13M08 · Moses Lake Fire Department, WA 45 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 45
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #4,927
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Beach Park
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Beach Park Fire Department, IL (+ 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 WA department.

Department Profile

Type
MAINLY PAID PROVIDERS
Location
Moses Lake, WA
FDID
13M08

Staffing vs the Washington average

How Moses Lake Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Washington. In-state it ranks #52 of 120 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,927 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 22% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
68
WA departments
483

County roster fringe

Moses Lake Fire Department is 9.7% of Grant County roster mass

The county lists 16 departments totaling 466 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 81% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

4.44 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 45 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Beach Park Fire Department, IL (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide career peers near 45 personnel

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