Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Oak Creek Fire Department

Oak Creek, WI · Milwaukee County. Oak Creek Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 44 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.

44
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Oak Creek Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Wisconsin average.

Top 23%
national personnel size
+57%
vs. Wisconsin average
3
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
20/100
Oak Creek 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 D
14.7 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
44 personnel · 3 stations

Oak Creek Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Oak Creek, WI (Milwaukee County), with 3 stations and 44 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,169 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #5,169 of 22,440
  • WI personnel rank #146 of 695
  • 6.82 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 14 other listed departments in Milwaukee County

Oak Creek Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

44 Top 23% higher than 77% 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 40020 · Oak Creek Fire Department, WI 44 personnel · 3 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 44
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #5,169
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Williams Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Williams Volunteer Fire Department, MN (+ 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 WI department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Oak Creek, WI
FDID
40020

Staffing vs the Wisconsin average

How Oak Creek Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Wisconsin. In-state it ranks #146 of 695 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,169 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 57% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
54
WI departments
961

County roster fringe

Oak Creek Fire Department is 2.4% of Milwaukee County roster mass

The county lists 24 departments totaling 1,819 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 92% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.82 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 44 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Williams Volunteer Fire Department, MN (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide career peers near 44 personnel

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