Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Orchard Farm Fire Protection District

Saint Charles, MO · St Charles County. Orchard Farm Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 42 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.

42
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Orchard Farm Fire Protection District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Missouri average.

Top 25%
national personnel size
+110%
vs. Missouri average
1
station
$371,429
FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record

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
63/100
Orchard Farm Fire Protection District

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 A
42 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 D
$8,844 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
42 personnel · 1 station

Orchard Farm Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department serving Saint Charles, MO (St Charles County), with 1 station and 42 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,563 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $371,429.

  • National personnel rank #5,563 of 22,440
  • MO personnel rank #108 of 659
  • 2.38 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 14 other listed departments in St Charles County

Orchard Farm Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution

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

42 Top 25% higher than 75% 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 09210 · Orchard Farm Fire Protection District, MO 42 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 42
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #5,563
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Western Wake Fire…
  • FEMA-LIGHT $371K
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Western Wake Fire and Rescue Incorporated, NC (+ 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 MO department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Saint Charles, MO
FDID
09210

FEMA Grant History

$371K
Cumulative funding (FY2016)
1
Awards
Year Award Amount
2016 EMW2015FV02464 $371,429

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the Missouri average

How Orchard Farm Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Missouri. In-state it ranks #108 of 659 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,563 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 110% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
95
MO departments
1,128

County roster fringe

Orchard Farm Fire Protection District is 6.7% of St Charles County roster mass

The county lists 18 departments totaling 629 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 94% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.38 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 42 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Western Wake Fire and Rescue Incorporated, NC (+0 personnel).

Nationwide volunteer peers near 42 personnel

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