Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Belle Valley Volunteer Fire and Rescue

Belle Valley, OH · Noble County. Belle Valley Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 23 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.

23
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Belle Valley Volunteer Fire and Rescue pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Ohio average.

34th pct.
national personnel size
-23%
vs. Ohio 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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
48/100
Belle Valley Volunteer Fire and Rescue

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 C
23 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
23 personnel · 1 station

Belle Valley Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Belle Valley, OH (Noble County), with 1 station and 23 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #14,918 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #14,918 of 22,440
  • OH personnel rank #866 of 1,108
  • 4.35 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 2 other listed departments in Noble County

Belle Valley Volunteer Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

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

23 Top 66% higher than 34% 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 61205 · Belle Valley Volunteer Fire and Rescue, OH 23 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 23
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #14,918
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Pocahontas Volunt…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Pocahontas Volunteer Fire, 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 OH department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Belle Valley, OH
FDID
61205

Staffing vs the Ohio average

How Belle Valley Volunteer Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #866 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #14,918 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 23% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
138
OH departments
1,501

County roster weight

Belle Valley Volunteer Fire and Rescue carries 29.5% of Noble County HIFLD personnel

Among 3 listed departments (78 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 100% of the county count. County / state rollup.

4.35 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 23 roster).

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

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

Nearby Departments

Caldwell Volunteer Fire Department
Caldwell · volunteer
Summerfield Volunteer Fire Department
Summerfield · volunteer
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 23 personnel

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