Department profile
Career (Paid)Bogalusa Fire Department
Bogalusa, LA · Washington County. Bogalusa Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 34 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 34
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Bogalusa Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Louisiana average.
- Top 37%
- national personnel size
- +31%
- 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.
Bogalusa Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Bogalusa, LA (Washington County), with 3 stations and 34 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,269 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #8,269 of 22,440
- LA personnel rank #101 of 342
- 8.82 stations per 100 personnel
- 2 other listed departments in Washington County
Bogalusa Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
34 Top 37% higher than 63% 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 59005 · Bogalusa Fire Department, LA 34 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 34
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #8,269
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Pawnee Fire and A…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Pawnee Fire and Ambulance Service, OK (+ 0 personnel)
Career/paid 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.
- Bogalusa (this dept) 34
- High Town of Wilson-Bl…, WI 34
- Near Pawnee Fire and A…, OK 34
- Near Mount Gilead, OH 34
- Near Pultneyville, NY 34
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Bogalusa, LA
- County
- Washington County
- FDID
- 59005
Staffing vs the Louisiana average
How Bogalusa Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Louisiana. In-state it ranks #101 of 342 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,269 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 96
- LA departments
- 786
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Washington County
County mix is mostly volunteer (5 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
8.82 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 34 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Pawnee Fire and Ambulance Service, OK (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 34 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every LA department.