Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Valparaiso Fire and Rescue

Valparaiso, NE · Saunders County. Valparaiso Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 22 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.

22
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Valparaiso Fire and Rescue pairs modest national personnel with a headcount above the Nebraska average.

29th pct.
national personnel size
+22%
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
45/100
Valparaiso Fire and Rescue

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
22 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
22 personnel · 1 station

Valparaiso Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Valparaiso, NE (Saunders County), with 1 station and 22 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #16,042 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #16,042 of 22,440
  • NE personnel rank #205 of 258
  • 4.55 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 12 other listed departments in Saunders County

Valparaiso Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

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

22 Top 71% higher than 29% 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 06010 · Valparaiso Fire and Rescue, NE 22 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 22
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #16,042
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hillman Fire and…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Hillman Fire and Ambulance Department, MI (+ 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 NE department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Valparaiso, NE
FDID
06010

Staffing vs the Nebraska average

How Valparaiso Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Nebraska. In-state it ranks #205 of 258 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #16,042 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 22% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
26
NE departments
511

County roster fringe

Valparaiso Fire and Rescue is 7.7% of Saunders County roster mass

The county lists 13 departments totaling 287 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 85% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

4.55 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 22 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Hillman Fire and Ambulance Department, MI (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 22 personnel

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