Department profile
OtherEMS ProviderWellington Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department
Wellington, KS · Sumner County. Wellington Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department is a fire department, 1 station and 45 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.
- 45
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Wellington Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Kansas average.
- Top 23%
- national personnel size
- +105%
- vs. Kansas 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.
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.
Wellington Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department is a fire department serving Wellington, KS (Sumner County), with 1 station and 45 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,064 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,064 of 22,440
- KS personnel rank #48 of 431
- 2.22 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 7 other listed departments in Sumner County
Wellington Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
45 Top 23% higher than 77% 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 SU215 · Wellington Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department, KS 45 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 45
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,064
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Beach Park
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Beach Park Fire Department, IL (+ 0 personnel)
Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every KS department.
- Wellington Fire a… (this dept) 45
- High Cameron Volunteer, TX 45
- Near Beach Park, IL 45
- Near Blue Hill Volunte…, ME 45
- Near Camden, ME 45
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Wellington, KS
- County
- Sumner County
- FDID
- SU215
Staffing vs the Kansas average
How Wellington Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Kansas. In-state it ranks #48 of 431 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,064 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 45
- KS departments
- 773
County roster geometry
Sumner County HIFLD mix around Wellington Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department
Sumner County: 14 departments, 280 personnel (0 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 14% of departments. County / state rollup.
2.22 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 45 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Beach Park Fire Department, IL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 45 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every KS department.