Department profile
OtherShawnee Fire Department
Shawnee, KS · Johnson County. Shawnee Fire Department is a fire department, 3 stations and 74 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 74
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Shawnee Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Kansas average.
- Top 8%
- national personnel size
- +236%
- vs. Kansas average
- 3
- 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.
Shawnee Fire Department is a fire department serving Shawnee, KS (Johnson County), with 3 stations and 74 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,738 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,738 of 22,440
- KS personnel rank #22 of 431
- 4.05 stations per 100 personnel
- 8 other listed departments in Johnson County
Shawnee Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
74 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 JO103 · Shawnee Fire Department, KS 74 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-UNK · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MID 74
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-TOP #1,738
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Oxford Fire and R…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Oxford Fire and Rescue - Central Station, ME (+ 0 personnel)
Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every KS department.
- Shawnee (this dept) 74
- High Fort Oglethorpe, GA 74
- Near Oxford Fire and R…, ME 74
- Near Forest Grove Fire…, OR 74
- Near Clear Creek Fire…, CO 74
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Shawnee, KS
- County
- Johnson County
- FDID
- JO103
Staffing vs the Kansas average
How Shawnee Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Kansas. In-state it ranks #22 of 431 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,738 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 45
- KS departments
- 773
County roster fringe
Shawnee Fire Department is 8.0% of Johnson County roster mass
The county lists 21 departments totaling 925 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 38% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.05 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 74 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Oxford Fire and Rescue - Central Station, ME (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 74 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every KS department.