Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderMoses 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.
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.
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.
- Moses Lake (this dept) 45
- High Camden, ME 45
- Near Beach Park, IL 45
- Near Blue Hill Volunte…, ME 45
- Near Bonner Springs, KS 45
Department Profile
- Type
- MAINLY PAID PROVIDERS
- Location
- Moses Lake, WA
- County
- Grant County
- 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.
- 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).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 45 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every WA department.