Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Pelican Fire and Rescue

Rhinelander, WI · Oneida County. Pelican Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 34 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.

34
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Pelican Fire and Rescue pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Wisconsin average.

Top 38%
national personnel size
+21%
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
76/100
Pelican Fire and Rescue

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
34 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
34 personnel · 1 station

Pelican Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Rhinelander, WI (Oneida County), with 1 station and 34 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,457 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #8,457 of 22,440
  • WI personnel rank #320 of 695
  • 2.94 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 18 other listed departments in Oneida County

Pelican Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

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

34 Top 38% higher than 62% 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 43110 · Pelican Fire and Rescue, WI 34 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 34
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #8,457
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Painesville City
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Painesville City 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
Rhinelander, WI
FDID
43110

Staffing vs the Wisconsin average

How Pelican Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Wisconsin. In-state it ranks #320 of 695 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,457 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 21% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
54
WI departments
961

County roster geometry

Oneida County HIFLD mix around Pelican Fire and Rescue

Oneida County: 20 departments, 331 personnel (13 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 55% of departments. County / state rollup.

2.94 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 34 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Painesville City Fire Department, OH (+0 personnel).

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

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Minocqua Fire Department
Minocqua · other
Monico Volunteer Fire Department
Monico · volunteer
Newbold Volunteer Fire Department
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 34 personnel

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