Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderEast Wood Volunteer Fire Department
Davisville, WV · Wood County. East Wood Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 43 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.
- 43
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
East Wood Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the West Virginia average.
- Top 24%
- national personnel size
- +87%
- vs. West Virginia 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.
East Wood Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Davisville, WV (Wood County), with 2 stations and 43 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,282 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,282 of 22,440
- WV personnel rank #51 of 359
- 4.65 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 14 other listed departments in Wood County
East Wood Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
43 Top 24% higher than 76% 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 54103 · East Wood Volunteer Fire Department, WV 43 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 43
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,282
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Barton Hose Compa…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Barton Hose Company, 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 WV department.
- East Wood Volunte… (this dept) 43
- High Milton, WI 43
- Near Barton Hose Compa…, NY 43
- Near Hudson, WI 43
- Near Epping Rural Fire…, ND 43
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Davisville, WV
- County
- Wood County
- FDID
- 54103
Staffing vs the West Virginia average
How East Wood Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in West Virginia. In-state it ranks #51 of 359 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,282 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 55
- WV departments
- 511
County roster geometry
Wood County HIFLD mix around East Wood Volunteer Fire Department
Wood County: 15 departments, 414 personnel (10 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 73% of departments. County / state rollup.
4.65 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 43 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Barton Hose Company, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 43 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every WV department.