Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderGuthrie Township Volunteer Fire Department
Bedford, IN · Lawrence County. Guthrie Township Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer 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
Guthrie Township Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Indiana average.
- 6th pct.
- national personnel size
- -43%
- vs. Indiana 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.
Guthrie Township Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Bedford, IN (Lawrence 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 #21,091 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #21,091 of 22,440
- IN personnel rank #570 of 589
- 15.38 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 11 other listed departments in Lawrence County
Guthrie Township 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 47013 · Guthrie Township Volunteer Fire Department, IN 13 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MICRO · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MICRO 13
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #21,091
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Strang
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Strang Fire Department, 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 IN department.
- Guthrie Township… (this dept) 13
- High Middle River, MN 13
- Near Strang, OK 13
- Near Trinity Volunteer, AR 13
- Near Millville Fire Pr…, CA 13
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Bedford, IN
- County
- Lawrence County
- FDID
- 47013
Staffing vs the Indiana average
How Guthrie Township Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Indiana. In-state it ranks #570 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #21,091 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 94
- IN departments
- 969
County roster fringe
Guthrie Township Volunteer Fire Department is 6.5% of Lawrence County roster mass
The county lists 15 departments totaling 200 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 73% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
15.38 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 13 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Strang Fire Department, OK (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 13 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IN department.