Department profile
VolunteerBuford Volunteer Fire Department
Mountain Home, AR · Baxter County. Buford Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 25 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 25
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Buford Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well above the Arkansas average.
- 42nd pct.
- national personnel size
- +92%
- vs. Arkansas average
- 2
- 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.
Buford Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Mountain Home, AR (Baxter County), with 2 stations and 25 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #13,112 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #13,112 of 22,440
- AR personnel rank #178 of 604
- 8.00 stations per 100 personnel
- 19 other listed departments in Baxter County
Buford Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
25 Top 58% higher than 42% 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 03014 · Buford Volunteer Fire Department, AR 25 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 25
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-MID #13,112
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Willard City Fire…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Willard City Fire Department and First Responders, UT (+ 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 AR department.
- Buford Volunteer (this dept) 25
- High Bradley Volunteer, AL 25
- Near Willard City Fire…, UT 25
- Near Warner, SD 25
- Near Garland, UT 25
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Mountain Home, AR
- County
- Baxter County
- FDID
- 03014
Staffing vs the Arkansas average
How Buford Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arkansas. In-state it ranks #178 of 604 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #13,112 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 68
- AR departments
- 1,168
County roster fringe
Buford Volunteer Fire Department is 6.5% of Baxter County roster mass
The county lists 22 departments totaling 386 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 5% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
8.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 25 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Willard City Fire Department and First Responders, UT (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 25 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AR department.