Department profile
OtherEMS ProviderBienville Parish Fire Protection District Wards 4 and 5
Ringgold, LA · Bienville County. Bienville Parish Fire Protection District Wards 4 and 5 is a fire department and 53 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.
- 53
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Bienville Parish Fire Protection District Wards 4 and 5 pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Louisiana average.
- Top 15%
- national personnel size
- +104%
- vs. Louisiana average
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.
Bienville Parish Fire Protection District Wards 4 and 5 is a fire department serving Ringgold, LA (Bienville County) and 53 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,413 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,413 of 22,440
- LA personnel rank #38 of 342
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 10 other listed departments in Bienville County
Bienville Parish Fire Protection District Wards 4 and 5 vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
53 Top 15% higher than 85% 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 07020 · Bienville Parish Fire Protection District Wards 4 and 5, LA 53 personnel
PERS-MID · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MID 53
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #3,413
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Stockton Voluntee…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Stockton Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated, NY (+ 0 personnel)
Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every LA department.
- Bienville Parish… (this dept) 53
- High Circle V Fire Dep…, NC 53
- Near Stockton Voluntee…, NY 53
- Near Castle Hayne Volu…, NC 53
- Near Ulah Volunteer Fi…, NC 53
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Ringgold, LA
- County
- Bienville County
- FDID
- 07020
Staffing vs the Louisiana average
How Bienville Parish Fire Protection District Wards 4 and 5's personnel count compares to the typical department in Louisiana. In-state it ranks #38 of 342 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,413 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 96
- LA departments
- 786
County roster weight
Bienville Parish Fire Protection District Wards 4 and 5 carries 29.6% of Bienville County HIFLD personnel
Among 12 listed departments (179 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 17% of the county count. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Stockton Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 53 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every LA department.