Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Bayou Blue Volunteer Fire Department

Grosse Tete, LA · Iberville County. Bayou Blue Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 35 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.

35
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Bayou Blue Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Louisiana average.

Top 34%
national personnel size
+35%
vs. Louisiana 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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
30/100
Bayou Blue Volunteer Fire Department

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 D
17.5 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
35 personnel · 2 stations

Bayou Blue Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Grosse Tete, LA (Iberville County), with 2 stations and 35 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,599 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #7,599 of 22,440
  • LA personnel rank #95 of 342
  • 5.71 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 10 other listed departments in Iberville County

Bayou Blue Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

35 Top 34% higher than 66% 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 24003 · Bayou Blue Volunteer Fire Department, LA 35 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 35
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #7,599
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cecil Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Cecil Volunteer Fire Department, AR (+ 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 LA department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Grosse Tete, LA
FDID
24003

Staffing vs the Louisiana average

How Bayou Blue Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Louisiana. In-state it ranks #95 of 342 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,599 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 35% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
96
LA departments
786

County roster geometry

Iberville County HIFLD mix around Bayou Blue Volunteer Fire Department

Iberville County: 12 departments, 231 personnel (7 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 83% of departments. County / state rollup.

5.71 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 35 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Cecil Volunteer Fire Department, AR (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 35 personnel

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