Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Rochester Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company

Burlington, WI · Racine County. Rochester Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 25 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.

25
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Rochester Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company pairs modest national personnel with a headcount in line with the Wisconsin average.

38th pct.
national personnel size
-11%
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
54/100
Rochester Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company

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 C
25 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
25 personnel · 1 station

Rochester Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company is a Volunteer department serving Burlington, WI (Racine County), with 1 station and 25 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #13,902 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #13,902 of 22,440
  • WI personnel rank #556 of 695
  • 4.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 15 other listed departments in Racine County

Rochester Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

25 Top 62% higher than 38% 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 51080 · Rochester Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company, WI 25 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 25
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #13,902
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Donnybrook Fire P…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Donnybrook Fire Protection District, ND (+ 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
Burlington, WI
FDID
51080

Staffing vs the Wisconsin average

How Rochester Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Wisconsin. In-state it ranks #556 of 695 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #13,902 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 11% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
54
WI departments
961

County roster fringe

Rochester Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company is 5.1% of Racine County roster mass

The county lists 18 departments totaling 493 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 89% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

4.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 25 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Donnybrook Fire Protection District, ND (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

Burlington City Fire Department
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Caledonia Fire Department
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Caledonia Fire Department
Caledonia · career
Kansasville Fire Department
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Racine Fire Department
Racine · career
Raymond Fire Department
Franksville · volunteer
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 25 personnel

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