Department profile
VolunteerHand Cove Volunteer Fire Department
Elizabeth, AR · Baxter County. Hand Cove Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 36 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 36
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Hand Cove Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount more than double the Arkansas average.
- Top 33%
- national personnel size
- +177%
- vs. Arkansas 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.
Hand Cove Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Elizabeth, AR (Baxter County), with 1 station and 36 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,323 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #7,323 of 22,440
- AR personnel rank #61 of 604
- 2.78 stations per 100 personnel
- 19 other listed departments in Baxter County
Hand Cove Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
36 Top 33% higher than 67% 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 03012 · Hand Cove Volunteer Fire Department, AR 36 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 36
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-UPPER #7,323
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Tremonton Fire De…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Tremonton Fire Department Ambulance, UT (+ 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.
- Hand Cove Volunte… (this dept) 36
- High Smith Grove, NC 36
- Near Tremonton Fire De…, UT 36
- Near Adams, MA 36
- Near Urbana Rural, MO 36
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Elizabeth, AR
- County
- Baxter County
- FDID
- 03012
Staffing vs the Arkansas average
How Hand Cove Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arkansas. In-state it ranks #61 of 604 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,323 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 68
- AR departments
- 1,168
County roster fringe
Hand Cove Volunteer Fire Department is 9.3% of Baxter County roster mass
The county lists 22 departments totaling 386 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 5% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.78 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 36 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Tremonton Fire Department Ambulance, UT (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 36 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AR department.