Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderCankton Volunteer Fire Department
Sunset, LA · St Landry County. Cankton Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 38 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.
- 38
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Cankton Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Louisiana average.
- Top 30%
- national personnel size
- +46%
- vs. Louisiana 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.
Cankton Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Sunset, LA (St Landry County), with 1 station and 38 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #6,679 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #6,679 of 22,440
- LA personnel rank #76 of 342
- 2.63 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 11 other listed departments in St Landry County
Cankton Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
38 Top 30% higher than 70% 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 49005 · Cankton Volunteer Fire Department, LA 38 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 38
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #6,679
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Odessa Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Odessa Volunteer Fire Department, NY (+ 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 LA department.
- Cankton Volunteer (this dept) 38
- High Wilmar Volunteer, CA 38
- Near Odessa Volunteer, NY 38
- Near Forestville Fire…, CA 38
- Near Washington Distri…, WV 38
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Sunset, LA
- County
- St Landry County
- FDID
- 49005
Staffing vs the Louisiana average
How Cankton Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Louisiana. In-state it ranks #76 of 342 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #6,679 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 96
- LA departments
- 786
County roster fringe
Cankton Volunteer Fire Department is 7.6% of St Landry County roster mass
The county lists 23 departments totaling 498 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 52% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.63 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 38 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Odessa Volunteer Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 38 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every LA department.