Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderWisconsin Rapids Fire Department / Wisconsin Rapids Emergency Medical Services
Wisconsin Rapids, WI · Wood County. Wisconsin Rapids Fire Department / Wisconsin Rapids Emergency Medical Services is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 33 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.
- 33
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Wisconsin Rapids Fire Department / Wisconsin Rapids Emergency Medical Services pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Wisconsin average.
- Top 40%
- national personnel size
- +18%
- vs. Wisconsin average
- 2
- stations
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.
Wisconsin Rapids Fire Department / Wisconsin Rapids Emergency Medical Services is a Career (Paid) department serving Wisconsin Rapids, WI (Wood County), with 2 stations and 33 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,920 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #8,920 of 22,440
- WI personnel rank #349 of 695
- 6.06 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 16 other listed departments in Wood County
Wisconsin Rapids Fire Department / Wisconsin Rapids Emergency Medical Services vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
33 Top 40% higher than 60% 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 71140 · Wisconsin Rapids Fire Department / Wisconsin Rapids Emergency Medical Services, WI 33 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 33
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #8,920
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Harris Township
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Harris Township Fire Department, IN (+ 0 personnel)
Career/paid 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.
- Wisconsin Rapids… (this dept) 33
- High Atkinson, NH 33
- Near Harris Township, IN 33
- Near Bixby, OK 33
- Near City of Sand Spri…, OK 33
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Wisconsin Rapids, WI
- County
- Wood County
- FDID
- 71140
Staffing vs the Wisconsin average
How Wisconsin Rapids Fire Department / Wisconsin Rapids Emergency Medical Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in Wisconsin. In-state it ranks #349 of 695 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,920 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 54
- WI departments
- 961
County roster fringe
Wisconsin Rapids Fire Department / Wisconsin Rapids Emergency Medical Services is 7.2% of Wood County roster mass
The county lists 17 departments totaling 460 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 71% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
6.06 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 33 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Harris Township Fire Department, IN (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 33 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every WI department.