Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderFlaherty Volunteer Fire Department
Vine Grove, KY · Meade County. Flaherty Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 42 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.
- 42
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Flaherty Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Kentucky average.
- Top 24%
- national personnel size
- +100%
- 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.
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.
Flaherty Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Vine Grove, KY (Meade County), with 2 stations and 42 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,487 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,487 of 22,440
- KY personnel rank #110 of 606
- 4.76 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 8 other listed departments in Meade County
Flaherty Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
42 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 82437 · Flaherty Volunteer Fire Department, KY 42 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 42
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,487
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Sullivan County V…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Sullivan County Volunteer Fire Department - Blountville, 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.
- Flaherty Volunteer (this dept) 42
- High Middleton Township, OH 42
- Near Sullivan County V…, TN 42
- Near Apple Creek Volun…, OH 42
- Near Northwood, OH 42
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Vine Grove, KY
- County
- Meade County
- FDID
- 82437
Staffing vs the Kentucky average
How Flaherty Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Kentucky. In-state it ranks #110 of 606 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,487 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 93
- KY departments
- 981
County roster geometry
Meade County HIFLD mix around Flaherty Volunteer Fire Department
Meade County: 10 departments, 219 personnel (7 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 80% of departments. County / state rollup.
4.76 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 42 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Sullivan County Volunteer Fire Department - Blountville, TN (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 42 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every KY department.