Department profile
VolunteerFour Communities Volunteer Fire Department
Stephens, AR · Columbia County. Four Communities Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 10 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 10
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Four Communities Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Arkansas average.
- 2nd pct.
- national personnel size
- -23%
- vs. Arkansas 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.
Four Communities Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Stephens, AR (Columbia County), with 2 stations and 10 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #21,895 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #21,895 of 22,440
- AR personnel rank #581 of 604
- 20.00 stations per 100 personnel
- 14 other listed departments in Columbia County
Four Communities Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
10 Top 98% higher than 2% 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 14009 · Four Communities Volunteer Fire Department, AR 10 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MICRO · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MICRO 10
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-LOWER #21,895
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cedar Country Fir…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Cedar Country Fire Protection District, OK (+ 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 AR department.
- Four Communities… (this dept) 10
- High Tupelo Fire Distr…, OK 10
- Near Cedar Country Fir…, OK 10
- Near Morristown Aircra…, NJ 10
- Near Clayton Volunteer, LA 10
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Stephens, AR
- County
- Columbia County
- FDID
- 14009
Staffing vs the Arkansas average
How Four Communities Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arkansas. In-state it ranks #581 of 604 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #21,895 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 68
- AR departments
- 1,168
County roster fringe
Four Communities Volunteer Fire Department is 5.6% of Columbia County roster mass
The county lists 16 departments totaling 180 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 0% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
20.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 10 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Cedar Country Fire Protection District, OK (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 10 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AR department.