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Farmville Volunteer Fire Department

Waverly, AL · Lee County. Farmville Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department, 2 stations and 13 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.

13
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Farmville Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Alabama average.

6th pct.
national personnel size
-24%
vs. Alabama average
2
stations
$285,836
FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record

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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
34/100
Farmville 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
6.5 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 B
$21,987 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
13 personnel · 2 stations

Farmville Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department serving Waverly, AL (Lee County), with 2 stations and 13 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #21,074 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $285,836.

  • National personnel rank #21,074 of 22,440
  • AL personnel rank #682 of 733
  • 15.38 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 9 other listed departments in Lee County

Farmville Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

13 Top 94% higher than 6% 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 04309 · Farmville Volunteer Fire Department, AL 13 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-MICRO · STA-FEW · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MICRO 13
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #21,074
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cross Timbers Are…
  • FEMA-LIGHT $286K
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Cross Timbers Area Rural Fire Department, MO (+ 0 personnel)

Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.

Personnel neighbourhood

Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every AL department.

Department Profile

Type
Location
Waverly, AL
FDID
04309

FEMA Grant History

$286K
Cumulative funding (FY2009)
1
Awards
Year Award Amount
2009 EMW-2009-FO-0695 $285,836

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the Alabama average

How Farmville Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Alabama. In-state it ranks #682 of 733 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #21,074 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 24% below the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
84
AL departments
1,302

County roster fringe

Farmville Volunteer Fire Department is 3.5% of Lee County roster mass

The county lists 14 departments totaling 374 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 64% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

15.38 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 13 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Cross Timbers Area Rural Fire Department, MO (+0 personnel).

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Nationwide departments near 13 personnel

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