Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderSaint Cloud Fire Department
Saint Cloud, MN · Stearns County. Saint Cloud Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 6 stations and 72 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.
- 72
- Total personnel
- 6
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Saint Cloud Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Minnesota average.
- Top 8%
- national personnel size
- +243%
- vs. Minnesota average
- 6
- 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.
Saint Cloud Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Saint Cloud, MN (Stearns County), with 6 stations and 72 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,817 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,817 of 22,440
- MN personnel rank #14 of 614
- 8.33 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 22 other listed departments in Stearns County
Saint Cloud Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
72 Top 8% higher than 92% 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 73216 · Saint Cloud Fire Department, MN 72 personnel · 6 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 72
- STA-MULTI 6 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,817
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Ankeny Fire Depar…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Ankeny Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services, IA (+ 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 MN department.
- Saint Cloud (this dept) 72
- High Purchase, NY 72
- Near Ankeny Fire Depar…, IA 72
- Near Paintertown Volun…, PA 72
- Near City of Rye, NY 72
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Saint Cloud, MN
- County
- Stearns County
- FDID
- 73216
Staffing vs the Minnesota average
How Saint Cloud Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Minnesota. In-state it ranks #14 of 614 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,817 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 6
- State fire deaths/yr
- 48
- MN departments
- 883
County roster fringe
Saint Cloud Fire Department is 7.6% of Stearns County roster mass
The county lists 24 departments totaling 953 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 79% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
8.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (6 stations / 72 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Ankeny Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services, IA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 72 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MN department.