Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Rock Community Fire Protection District House 1

Arnold, MO · Jefferson County. Rock Community Fire Protection District House 1 is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 79 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.

79
Total personnel
4
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Rock Community Fire Protection District House 1 pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Missouri average.

Top 7%
national personnel size
+295%
vs. Missouri average
4
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
38/100
Rock Community Fire Protection District House 1

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
19.8 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
79 personnel · 4 stations

Rock Community Fire Protection District House 1 is a Career (Paid) department serving Arnold, MO (Jefferson County), with 4 stations and 79 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,533 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #1,533 of 22,440
  • MO personnel rank #21 of 659
  • 5.06 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 22 other listed departments in Jefferson County

Rock Community Fire Protection District House 1 vs. the national personnel distribution

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

79 Top 7% higher than 93% 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 05003 · Rock Community Fire Protection District House 1, MO 79 personnel · 4 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 79
  • STA-FEW 4 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,533
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Ringgold-Catoosa…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Ringgold-Catoosa County Volunteer Fire and Rescue, GA (+ 0 personnel)

Career/paid 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.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY CAREER
Location
Arnold, MO
FDID
05003

Staffing vs the Missouri average

How Rock Community Fire Protection District House 1's personnel count compares to the typical department in Missouri. In-state it ranks #21 of 659 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,533 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 295% above the state average
Stations
4
State fire deaths/yr
95
MO departments
1,128

County staffing outlier

Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Jefferson County

County mix is mostly volunteer (14 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.

5.06 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 79 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Ringgold-Catoosa County Volunteer Fire and Rescue, GA (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide career peers near 79 personnel

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