Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Talmage Community Fire Department

Talmage, NE · Otoe County. Talmage Community Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 24 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.

24
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Talmage Community Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount above the Nebraska average.

34th pct.
national personnel size
+33%
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
51/100
Talmage Community 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 C
24 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
24 personnel · 1 station

Talmage Community Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Talmage, NE (Otoe County), with 1 station and 24 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #14,807 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #14,807 of 22,440
  • NE personnel rank #180 of 258
  • 4.17 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 7 other listed departments in Otoe County

Talmage Community Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

24 Top 66% higher than 34% 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 11008 · Talmage Community Fire Department, NE 24 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 24
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #14,807
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Sioux Rapids
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Sioux Rapids Fire Department, 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 NE department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Talmage, NE
FDID
11008

Staffing vs the Nebraska average

How Talmage Community Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Nebraska. In-state it ranks #180 of 258 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #14,807 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 33% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
26
NE departments
511

County staffing outlier

Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Otoe County

County mix is mostly volunteer (6 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.

4.17 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 24 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Sioux Rapids Fire Department, IA (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

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Nationwide career peers near 24 personnel

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