Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderRicketts Volunteer Fire Department
Ricketts, IA · Crawford County. Ricketts Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 17 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.
- 17
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Ricketts Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount in line with the Iowa average.
- 14th pct.
- national personnel size
- -15%
- vs. Iowa average
- 2
- 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.
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.
Ricketts Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Ricketts, IA (Crawford County), with 2 stations and 17 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #19,302 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #19,302 of 22,440
- IA personnel rank #517 of 589
- 11.76 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 9 other listed departments in Crawford County
Ricketts Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
17 Top 86% higher than 14% 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 24010 · Ricketts Volunteer Fire Department, IA 17 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 17
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #19,302
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Oak Bend Etna
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Oak Bend Etna Fire Department, AR (+ 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 IA department.
- Ricketts Volunteer (this dept) 17
- High Lafayette Volunte…, KY 17
- Near Oak Bend Etna, AR 17
- Near Merced County, CA 17
- Near Manchester, MN 17
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Ricketts, IA
- County
- Crawford County
- FDID
- 24010
Staffing vs the Iowa average
How Ricketts Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Iowa. In-state it ranks #517 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #19,302 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 39
- IA departments
- 810
County roster fringe
Ricketts Volunteer Fire Department is 8.8% of Crawford County roster mass
The county lists 10 departments totaling 193 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 90% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
11.76 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 17 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Oak Bend Etna Fire Department, AR (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 17 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IA department.