Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderChackbay Volunteer Fire Department
Thibodaux, LA · Lafourche County. Chackbay Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 45 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.
- 45
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Chackbay Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Louisiana average.
- Top 21%
- national personnel size
- +73%
- vs. Louisiana 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.
Chackbay Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Thibodaux, LA (Lafourche County), with 2 stations and 45 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,754 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,754 of 22,440
- LA personnel rank #57 of 342
- 4.44 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 8 other listed departments in Lafourche County
Chackbay Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
45 Top 21% higher than 79% 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 29045 · Chackbay Volunteer Fire Department, LA 45 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 45
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,754
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Fort Plain Volunt…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Fort Plain 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.
- Chackbay Volunteer (this dept) 45
- High West Brighton, NY 45
- Near Fort Plain Volunt…, NY 45
- Near Montana State Pri…, MT 45
- Near Pleasant Prairie…, WI 45
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Thibodaux, LA
- County
- Lafourche County
- FDID
- 29045
Staffing vs the Louisiana average
How Chackbay Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Louisiana. In-state it ranks #57 of 342 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,754 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 96
- LA departments
- 786
County roster fringe
Chackbay Volunteer Fire Department is 4.2% of Lafourche County roster mass
The county lists 17 departments totaling 1,064 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 35% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.44 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 45 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Fort Plain 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 45 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every LA department.