Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderSaint Joseph Fire Department
Saint Joseph, MO · Buchanan County. Saint Joseph Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 9 stations and 134 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.
- 134
- Total personnel
- 9
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Saint Joseph Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Missouri average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +570%
- vs. Missouri average
- 9
- stations
- $812,728
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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 Joseph Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Saint Joseph, MO (Buchanan County), with 9 stations and 134 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #534 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $812,728.
- National personnel rank #534 of 22,440
- MO personnel rank #7 of 659
- 6.72 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 8 other listed departments in Buchanan County
Saint Joseph Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
134 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 01102 · Saint Joseph Fire Department, MO 134 personnel · 9 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 134
- STA-MULTI 9 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #534
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Parkwood Volunteer
- FEMA-MID $813K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Parkwood Volunteer Fire Department, NC (+ 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.
- Saint Joseph (this dept) 134
- High Duluth, MN 134
- Near Parkwood Volunteer, NC 134
- Near Farmington Hills, MI 134
- Near Jasper County, SC 134
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Saint Joseph, MO
- County
- Buchanan County
- FDID
- 01102
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | EMW-2020-FG-11194 | $367,272.73 |
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FG-09347 | $445,455 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Missouri average
How Saint Joseph Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Missouri. In-state it ranks #7 of 659 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #534 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 9
- State fire deaths/yr
- 95
- MO departments
- 1,128
County roster weight
Saint Joseph Fire Department carries 66.7% of Buchanan County HIFLD personnel
Among 10 listed departments (201 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 30% of the county count. County / state rollup.
6.72 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (9 stations / 134 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Parkwood Volunteer Fire Department, NC (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 134 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MO department.