The Fenton Fire Protection District has Accredited Agency status with the Commission on Fire Accreditation International (CFAI). The district met the criteria established through the CFAI's voluntary self-assessment and accreditation program. The Fenton Fire Protection District was the first fire department in St. Louis County to achieve accreditation and the second in the state of Missouri. Internationally there are only 284 agencies that have received International Agency Accreditation status with the CFAI and the Center for Public Safety Excellence.

The process of accreditation provides the organization and the citizens many benefits including:

• Provides mechanisms to evaluate expenditures that are directly related to improved or expanded service delivery in the community
• Nationally-accepted response criteria
• Elevates the level of professionalism
• Well-defined response and resource evaluation
• The promotion of excellence within the fire and emergency services
• Encouraging quality improvement through a continuous self assessment process
• Providing a detailed evaluation of a department and the services it provides to the community
• Identifying areas of strength and weakness within a department
• A mechanism for developing strategic and program action plan
• Provides a continuous improvement model