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Muscoda Volunteer Fire Department / Muscoda Rescue Squad

Muscoda, WI · Grant County. Muscoda Volunteer Fire Department / Muscoda Rescue Squad is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 31 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.

31
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Muscoda Volunteer Fire Department / Muscoda Rescue Squad pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the Wisconsin average.

Top 43%
national personnel size
+11%
vs. Wisconsin average
1
station

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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
70/100
Muscoda Volunteer Fire Department / Muscoda Rescue Squad

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 B
31 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
31 personnel · 1 station

Muscoda Volunteer Fire Department / Muscoda Rescue Squad is a Volunteer department serving Muscoda, WI (Grant County), with 1 station and 31 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #9,666 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #9,666 of 22,440
  • WI personnel rank #383 of 695
  • 3.23 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 19 other listed departments in Grant County

Muscoda Volunteer Fire Department / Muscoda Rescue Squad vs. the national personnel distribution

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

31 Top 43% higher than 57% 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 22180 · Muscoda Volunteer Fire Department / Muscoda Rescue Squad, WI 31 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 31
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #9,666
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Margaretta Townsh…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Margaretta Township Fire Department, OH (+ 0 personnel)

Volunteer 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 WI department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Muscoda, WI
FDID
22180

Staffing vs the Wisconsin average

How Muscoda Volunteer Fire Department / Muscoda Rescue Squad's personnel count compares to the typical department in Wisconsin. In-state it ranks #383 of 695 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,666 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 11% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
54
WI departments
961

County roster fringe

Muscoda Volunteer Fire Department / Muscoda Rescue Squad is 4.9% of Grant County roster mass

The county lists 20 departments totaling 628 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 60% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.23 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 31 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Margaretta Township Fire Department, OH (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 31 personnel

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