Department profile
VolunteerCatfish District-Oxford Volunteer Fire Department
Claremont, NC · Catawba County. Catfish District-Oxford Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations 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
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Catfish District-Oxford Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the North Carolina average.
- Top 20%
- national personnel size
- +77%
- vs. North Carolina 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.
Catfish District-Oxford Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Claremont, NC (Catawba County), with 2 stations and 46 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,567 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,567 of 22,440
- NC personnel rank #197 of 932
- 4.35 stations per 100 personnel
- 16 other listed departments in Catawba County
Catfish District-Oxford 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 01813 · Catfish District-Oxford Volunteer Fire Department, NC 46 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 46
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #4,567
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Elida Community F…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Elida Community Fire Company Incorporated, OH (+ 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 NC department.
- Catfish District-… (this dept) 46
- High Berne, IN 46
- Near Elida Community F…, OH 46
- Near New Hartford, CT 46
- Near Midway, NY 46
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Claremont, NC
- County
- Catawba County
- FDID
- 01813
Staffing vs the North Carolina average
How Catfish District-Oxford Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #197 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,567 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 131
- NC departments
- 1,534
County roster fringe
Catfish District-Oxford Volunteer Fire Department is 7.6% of Catawba County roster mass
The county lists 21 departments totaling 608 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 90% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.35 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 46 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Elida Community Fire Company Incorporated, OH (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 46 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NC department.