Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Waldo Volunteer Fire Department

Waldo, WI · Sheboygan County. Waldo Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 32 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.

32
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Waldo Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the Wisconsin average.

Top 42%
national personnel size
+14%
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
72/100
Waldo 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
32 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
32 personnel · 1 station

Waldo Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Waldo, WI (Sheboygan County), with 1 station and 32 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #9,380 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #9,380 of 22,440
  • WI personnel rank #372 of 695
  • 3.13 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 24 other listed departments in Sheboygan County

Waldo Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

32 Top 42% higher than 58% 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 59240 · Waldo Volunteer Fire Department, WI 32 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 32
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #9,380
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Sodus Fire Company
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Sodus Fire Company, 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
Waldo, WI
FDID
59240

Staffing vs the Wisconsin average

How Waldo Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Wisconsin. In-state it ranks #372 of 695 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,380 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 14% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
54
WI departments
961

County roster fringe

Waldo Volunteer Fire Department is 3.7% 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.

3.13 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 32 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Sodus Fire Company, NY (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 32 personnel

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