Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderEdna Bay Volunteer Fire Department / Edna Bay Emergency Medical Services / Edna Bay Search and Rescue
Ketchikan, AK · Prince Of Wales-Outer Ketchikan County. Edna Bay Volunteer Fire Department / Edna Bay Emergency Medical Services / Edna Bay Search and Rescue is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 7 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.
- 7
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Edna Bay Volunteer Fire Department / Edna Bay Emergency Medical Services / Edna Bay Search and Rescue pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Alaska average.
- 1st pct.
- national personnel size
- -59%
- vs. Alaska 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.
Edna Bay Volunteer Fire Department / Edna Bay Emergency Medical Services / Edna Bay Search and Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Ketchikan, AK (Prince Of Wales-Outer Ketchikan County), with 1 station and 7 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,277 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #22,277 of 22,440
- AK personnel rank #115 of 119
- 14.29 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 12 other listed departments in Prince Of Wales-Outer Ketchikan County
Edna Bay Volunteer Fire Department / Edna Bay Emergency Medical Services / Edna Bay Search and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
7 Top 99% higher than 1% 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 19707 · Edna Bay Volunteer Fire Department / Edna Bay Emergency Medical Services / Edna Bay Search and Rescue, AK 7 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MICRO 7
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #22,277
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Midway Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Midway Volunteer Fire Department, FL (+ 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 AK department.
- Edna Bay Voluntee… (this dept) 7
- High Lynndyl, UT 7
- Near Midway Volunteer, FL 7
- Near Piercy Fire Prote…, CA 7
- Near Lookout Mountain, GA 7
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Ketchikan, AK
- FDID
- 19707
Staffing vs the Alaska average
How Edna Bay Volunteer Fire Department / Edna Bay Emergency Medical Services / Edna Bay Search and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Alaska. In-state it ranks #115 of 119 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,277 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 18
- AK departments
- 286
County roster fringe
Edna Bay Volunteer Fire Department / Edna Bay Emergency Medical Services / Edna Bay Search and Rescue is 5.3% of Prince Of Wales-Outer Ketchikan County roster mass
The county lists 13 departments totaling 132 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 62% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
14.29 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 7 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Midway Volunteer Fire Department, FL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 7 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AK department.