Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Cumberland River Volunteer Fire Department

Partridge, KY · Letcher County. Cumberland River Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations 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
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Cumberland River Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount in line with the Kentucky average.

31st pct.
national personnel size
+5%
vs. Kentucky 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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
9/100
Cumberland River Volunteer Fire Department

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.

Staffing capacity F
11 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
22 personnel · 2 stations

Cumberland River Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Partridge, KY (Letcher County), with 2 stations and 22 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #15,548 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #15,548 of 22,440
  • KY personnel rank #386 of 606
  • 9.09 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 10 other listed departments in Letcher County

Cumberland River Volunteer Fire 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 67782 · Cumberland River Volunteer Fire Department, KY 22 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 22
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #15,548
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hardys Chapel Vol…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Hardys Chapel Volunteer Fire Department, TN (+ 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 KY department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Partridge, KY
FDID
67782

Staffing vs the Kentucky average

How Cumberland River Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Kentucky. In-state it ranks #386 of 606 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #15,548 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 5% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
93
KY departments
981

County roster fringe

Cumberland River Volunteer Fire Department is 8.7% of Letcher County roster mass

The county lists 11 departments totaling 252 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 55% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

9.09 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 22 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Hardys Chapel Volunteer Fire Department, TN (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

Nationwide volunteer peers near 22 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every KY department.