Department profile
VolunteerRidgeway Rural Fire Department
Ridgeway, MO · Harrison County. Ridgeway Rural Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 10 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 10
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Ridgeway Rural Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Missouri average.
- 2nd pct.
- national personnel size
- -50%
- vs. Missouri 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.
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.
Ridgeway Rural Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Ridgeway, MO (Harrison County), with 1 station and 10 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,026 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #22,026 of 22,440
- MO personnel rank #648 of 659
- 10.00 stations per 100 personnel
- 5 other listed departments in Harrison County
Ridgeway Rural Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
10 Top 98% higher than 2% 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 04106 · Ridgeway Rural Fire Department, MO 10 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MICRO 10
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #22,026
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Edison Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Edison Volunteer Fire Department, CO (+ 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.
- Ridgeway Rural (this dept) 10
- High Buffalo Valley Vo…, OK 10
- Near Edison Volunteer, CO 10
- Near Elmwood Firefight…, OK 10
- Near Balko-Bryans Corn…, OK 10
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Ridgeway, MO
- County
- Harrison County
- FDID
- 04106
Staffing vs the Missouri average
How Ridgeway Rural Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Missouri. In-state it ranks #648 of 659 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,026 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 95
- MO departments
- 1,128
County roster fringe
Ridgeway Rural Fire Department is 8.5% of Harrison County roster mass
The county lists 6 departments totaling 117 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 17% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
10.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 10 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Edison Volunteer Fire Department, CO (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 10 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MO department.