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Superior Volunteer Fire Department

Superior, NE · Nuckolls County. Superior Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department, 1 station and 34 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

34
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Not reported
EMS service

The verdict

Superior Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Nebraska average.

Top 38%
national personnel size
+89%
vs. Nebraska 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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
76/100
Superior Volunteer Fire Department

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 B
34 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
34 personnel · 1 station

Superior Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department serving Superior, NE (Nuckolls County), with 1 station and 34 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,517 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #8,517 of 22,440
  • NE personnel rank #78 of 258
  • 2.94 stations per 100 personnel
  • 5 other listed departments in Nuckolls County

Superior Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

34 Top 38% higher than 62% 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 JW410 · Superior Volunteer Fire Department, NE 34 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-UNK · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-SMALL 34
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
  • EMS-UNK EMS pending
  • RANK-UPPER #8,517
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ 162 Fighter Wing…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: 162 Fighter Wing Fire Department-Dod, AZ (+ 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 NE department.

Department Profile

Type
Location
Superior, NE
FDID
JW410

Staffing vs the Nebraska average

How Superior Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Nebraska. In-state it ranks #78 of 258 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,517 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 89% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
26
NE departments
511

County roster weight

Superior Volunteer Fire Department carries 40.5% of Nuckolls County HIFLD personnel

Among 6 listed departments (84 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 33% of the county count. County / state rollup.

2.94 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 34 roster).

Photo-finish peer: 162 Fighter Wing Fire Department-Dod, AZ (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide departments near 34 personnel

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