Department profile

Volunteer

Town of Wilson-Black River Fire Department

Sheboygan, WI · Sheboygan County. Town of Wilson-Black River Fire Department is a Volunteer 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
No
EMS service

The verdict

Town of Wilson-Black River Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Wisconsin average.

Top 38%
national personnel size
+21%
vs. Wisconsin 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
Town of Wilson-Black River 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

Town of Wilson-Black River Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Sheboygan, WI (Sheboygan 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 #8,526 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #8,526 of 22,440
  • WI personnel rank #328 of 695
  • 2.94 stations per 100 personnel
  • 24 other listed departments in Sheboygan County

Town of Wilson-Black River 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 59060 · Town of Wilson-Black River Fire Department, WI 34 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 34
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #8,526
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Pultneyville
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Pultneyville Fire Department, NY (+ 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 WI department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Sheboygan, WI
FDID
59060

Staffing vs the Wisconsin average

How Town of Wilson-Black River Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Wisconsin. In-state it ranks #328 of 695 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,526 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 21% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
54
WI departments
961

County roster fringe

Town of Wilson-Black River Fire Department is 3.9% of Sheboygan County roster mass

The county lists 27 departments totaling 872 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 63% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

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

Photo-finish peer: Pultneyville Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).

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

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