Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderBowerston Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department
Bowerston, OH · Harrison County. Bowerston Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 22 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.
- 22
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Bowerston Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Ohio average.
- 31st pct.
- national personnel size
- -27%
- 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.
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.
Bowerston Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department is a Volunteer department serving Bowerston, OH (Harrison County), with 1 station and 22 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #15,462 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #15,462 of 22,440
- OH personnel rank #882 of 1,108
- 4.55 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 11 other listed departments in Harrison County
Bowerston Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
22 Top 69% higher than 31% 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 34003 · Bowerston Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department, OH 22 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 22
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #15,462
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Nora Springs Volu…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Nora Springs Volunteer Fire Department, IA (+ 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.
- Bowerston Volunte… (this dept) 22
- High Shickley Volunteer, NE 22
- Near Nora Springs Volu…, IA 22
- Near Delaware Township…, PA 22
- Near Richwood Voluntee…, AR 22
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Bowerston, OH
- County
- Harrison County
- FDID
- 34003
Staffing vs the Ohio average
How Bowerston Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #882 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #15,462 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 138
- OH departments
- 1,501
County roster fringe
Bowerston Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department is 8.3% of Harrison County roster mass
The county lists 12 departments totaling 266 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 92% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.55 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 22 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Nora Springs Volunteer Fire Department, IA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 22 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.