Department profile
VolunteerBainville Rural Fire District
Bainville, MT · Roosevelt County. Bainville Rural Fire District is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 29 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 29
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Bainville Rural Fire District pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Montana average.
- Top 49%
- national personnel size
- +93%
- vs. Montana 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.
Bainville Rural Fire District is a Volunteer department serving Bainville, MT (Roosevelt County), with 1 station and 29 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #10,920 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #10,920 of 22,440
- MT personnel rank #58 of 227
- 3.45 stations per 100 personnel
- 6 other listed departments in Roosevelt County
Bainville Rural Fire District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
29 Top 49% higher than 51% 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 17004 · Bainville Rural Fire District, MT 29 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 29
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-MID #10,920
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Brushton Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Brushton Volunteer Fire Department, NY (+ 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.
- Bainville Rural F… (this dept) 29
- High Gila Valley Volun…, NM 29
- Near Brushton Volunteer, NY 29
- Near Gresham Rural Fir…, NE 29
- Near Bangor Volunteer, NY 29
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Bainville, MT
- County
- Roosevelt County
- FDID
- 17004
Staffing vs the Montana average
How Bainville Rural Fire District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Montana. In-state it ranks #58 of 227 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #10,920 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 19
- MT departments
- 416
County roster weight
Bainville Rural Fire District carries 28.2% of Roosevelt County HIFLD personnel
Among 7 listed departments (103 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 71% of the county count. County / state rollup.
3.45 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 29 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Brushton Volunteer Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 29 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MT department.