Department profile

Volunteer

Wolf Creek-Craig Fire Service Area

Wolf Creek, MT · Lewis And Clark County. Wolf Creek-Craig Fire Service Area is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 26 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

26
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Wolf Creek-Craig Fire Service Area pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well above the Montana average.

42nd pct.
national personnel size
+73%
vs. Montana average
3
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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
7/100
Wolf Creek-Craig Fire Service Area

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 F
8.7 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
26 personnel · 3 stations

Wolf Creek-Craig Fire Service Area is a Volunteer department serving Wolf Creek, MT (Lewis And Clark County), with 3 stations and 26 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #12,972 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #12,972 of 22,440
  • MT personnel rank #95 of 227
  • 11.54 stations per 100 personnel
  • 19 other listed departments in Lewis And Clark County

Wolf Creek-Craig Fire Service Area vs. the national personnel distribution

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

26 Top 58% higher than 42% 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 05041 · Wolf Creek-Craig Fire Service Area, MT 26 personnel · 3 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 26
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-MID #12,972
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ West Cape May Vol…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: West Cape May Volunteer Fire Company, NJ (+ 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 MT department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Wolf Creek, MT
FDID
05041

Staffing vs the Montana average

How Wolf Creek-Craig Fire Service Area's personnel count compares to the typical department in Montana. In-state it ranks #95 of 227 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #12,972 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 73% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
19
MT departments
416

County roster fringe

Wolf Creek-Craig Fire Service Area is 9.1% of Lewis And Clark County roster mass

The county lists 25 departments totaling 287 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 4% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

11.54 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 26 roster).

Photo-finish peer: West Cape May Volunteer Fire Company, NJ (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 26 personnel

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