Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Springfield Fire and Ambulance Service

Springfield, SD · Bon Homme County. Springfield Fire and Ambulance Service is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 8 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.

8
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Springfield Fire and Ambulance Service pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the South Dakota average.

1st pct.
national personnel size
-60%
vs. South Dakota 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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
15/100
Springfield Fire and Ambulance Service

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 F
8 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness D
1 vehicles per station (national median 2)
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
8 personnel · 1 station

Springfield Fire and Ambulance Service is a Volunteer department serving Springfield, SD (Bon Homme County), with 1 station and 8 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,246 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #22,246 of 22,440
  • SD personnel rank #255 of 257
  • 12.50 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 4 other listed departments in Bon Homme County

Springfield Fire and Ambulance Service vs. the national personnel distribution

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

8 Top 99% higher than 1% 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 12003 · Springfield Fire and Ambulance Service, SD 8 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MICRO 8
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #22,246
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Miranda Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Miranda Volunteer Fire Department, CA (+ 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 SD department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Springfield, SD
FDID
12003

Staffing vs the South Dakota average

How Springfield Fire and Ambulance Service's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Dakota. In-state it ranks #255 of 257 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,246 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 60% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
17
SD departments
365

County roster fringe

Springfield Fire and Ambulance Service is 6.6% of Bon Homme County roster mass

The county lists 5 departments totaling 121 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 20% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

12.50 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 8 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Miranda Volunteer Fire Department, CA (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

Avon Fire Department
Avon · volunteer
Scotland Fire Department
Scotland · volunteer
Tabor Fire Department
Tabor · volunteer
Tyndall Fire Department
Tyndall · volunteer
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 8 personnel

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