Department profile

Volunteer

Big Pine Key Volunteer Fire Department

Big Pine Key, FL · Monroe County. Big Pine Key Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 46 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

46
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Big Pine Key Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Florida average.

Top 20%
national personnel size
+64%
vs. Florida 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
PlainFireData Composite Score
90/100
Big Pine Key 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 A
46 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
46 personnel · 1 station

Big Pine Key Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Big Pine Key, FL (Monroe County), with 1 station and 46 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,557 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #4,557 of 22,440
  • FL personnel rank #101 of 352
  • 2.17 stations per 100 personnel
  • 14 other listed departments in Monroe County

Big Pine Key Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

46 Top 20% higher than 80% 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 38031 · Big Pine Key Volunteer Fire Department, FL 46 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 46
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #4,557
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Collinsville Volu…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Collinsville Volunteer Fire Department, MS (+ 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 FL department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Big Pine Key, FL
FDID
38031

Staffing vs the Florida average

How Big Pine Key Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Florida. In-state it ranks #101 of 352 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,557 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 64% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
206
FL departments
758

County roster fringe

Big Pine Key Volunteer Fire Department is 7.5% of Monroe County roster mass

The county lists 17 departments totaling 617 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 53% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.17 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 46 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Collinsville Volunteer Fire Department, MS (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 46 personnel

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