Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Pelican Lake Fire District Incorporated

Pelican Lake, WI · Oneida County. Pelican Lake Fire District Incorporated is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 18 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.

18
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Pelican Lake Fire District Incorporated pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Wisconsin average.

16th pct.
national personnel size
-36%
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
32/100
Pelican Lake Fire District Incorporated

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
18 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
18 personnel · 1 station

Pelican Lake Fire District Incorporated is a Volunteer department serving Pelican Lake, WI (Oneida County), with 1 station and 18 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #18,763 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #18,763 of 22,440
  • WI personnel rank #660 of 695
  • 5.56 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 18 other listed departments in Oneida County

Pelican Lake Fire District Incorporated vs. the national personnel distribution

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

18 Top 84% higher than 16% 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 43120 · Pelican Lake Fire District Incorporated, WI 18 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 18
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #18,763
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Harrisville Volun…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Harrisville Volunteer Fire Department, WV (+ 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
Pelican Lake, WI
FDID
43120

Staffing vs the Wisconsin average

How Pelican Lake Fire District Incorporated's personnel count compares to the typical department in Wisconsin. In-state it ranks #660 of 695 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #18,763 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 36% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
54
WI departments
961

County roster fringe

Pelican Lake Fire District Incorporated is 5.4% of Oneida County roster mass

The county lists 20 departments totaling 331 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 55% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

5.56 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 18 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Harrisville Volunteer Fire Department, WV (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 18 personnel

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