Department profile
VolunteerBerwick Volunteer Fire Department - Vj Bella Central Station
Berwick, LA · St Mary County. Berwick Volunteer Fire Department - Vj Bella Central Station is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 30 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 30
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Berwick Volunteer Fire Department - Vj Bella Central Station pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Louisiana average.
- Top 44%
- national personnel size
- +15%
- vs. Louisiana 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.
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.
Berwick Volunteer Fire Department - Vj Bella Central Station is a Volunteer department serving Berwick, LA (St Mary County), with 3 stations and 30 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #9,889 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #9,889 of 22,440
- LA personnel rank #121 of 342
- 10.00 stations per 100 personnel
- 11 other listed departments in St Mary County
Berwick Volunteer Fire Department - Vj Bella Central Station vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
30 Top 44% higher than 56% 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 51020 · Berwick Volunteer Fire Department - Vj Bella Central Station, LA 30 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 30
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-MID #9,889
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hillsboro Volunte…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Hillsboro Volunteer Fire, NM (+ 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.
- Berwick Volunteer… (this dept) 30
- High Cowen Volunteer, WV 30
- Near Hillsboro Volunte…, NM 30
- Near Greenfield Volunt…, NH 30
- Near Kansasville, WI 30
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Berwick, LA
- County
- St Mary County
- FDID
- 51020
Staffing vs the Louisiana average
How Berwick Volunteer Fire Department - Vj Bella Central Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Louisiana. In-state it ranks #121 of 342 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,889 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 96
- LA departments
- 786
County roster fringe
Berwick Volunteer Fire Department - Vj Bella Central Station is 8.8% of St Mary County roster mass
The county lists 14 departments totaling 342 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 57% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
10.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 30 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Hillsboro Volunteer Fire, NM (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 30 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every LA department.