Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Wardell Volunteer Fire Department

Wardell, MO · Pemiscot County. Wardell Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 30 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.

30
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

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

Top 48%
national personnel size
+50%
vs. Missouri 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
67/100
Wardell 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
30 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
30 personnel · 1 station

Wardell Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Wardell, MO (Pemiscot County), with 1 station and 30 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #10,829 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #10,829 of 22,440
  • MO personnel rank #245 of 659
  • 3.33 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 6 other listed departments in Pemiscot County

Wardell Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

30 Top 48% higher than 52% 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 07805 · Wardell Volunteer Fire Department, MO 30 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 30
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #10,829
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Britts Township V…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Britts Township Volunteer Fire Department, NC (+ 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 MO department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Wardell, MO
FDID
07805

Staffing vs the Missouri average

How Wardell Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Missouri. In-state it ranks #245 of 659 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #10,829 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 50% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
95
MO departments
1,128

County roster weight

Wardell Volunteer Fire Department carries 32.6% of Pemiscot County HIFLD personnel

Among 7 listed departments (92 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 57% of the county count. County / state rollup.

3.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 30 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Britts Township Volunteer Fire Department, NC (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 30 personnel

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