Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Harrison Township Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated

Columbus, IN · Bartholomew County. Harrison Township Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 23 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.

23
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Harrison Township Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated pairs modest national personnel with a headcount in line with the Indiana average.

33rd pct.
national personnel size
+0%
vs. Indiana 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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
48/100
Harrison Township Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated

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 C
23 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
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
23 personnel · 1 station

Harrison Township Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated is a Volunteer department serving Columbus, IN (Bartholomew County), with 1 station and 23 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #15,095 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #15,095 of 22,440
  • IN personnel rank #398 of 589
  • 4.35 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 10 other listed departments in Bartholomew County

Harrison Township Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated vs. the national personnel distribution

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

23 Top 67% higher than 33% 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 03009 · Harrison Township Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated, IN 23 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 23
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #15,095
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Mifflin Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Mifflin Volunteer Fire Department, OH (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Columbus, IN
FDID
03009

Staffing vs the Indiana average

How Harrison Township Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated's personnel count compares to the typical department in Indiana. In-state it ranks #398 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #15,095 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 0% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
94
IN departments
969

County roster fringe

Harrison Township Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated is 9.6% of Bartholomew County roster mass

The county lists 12 departments totaling 239 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 100% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

4.35 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 23 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Mifflin Volunteer Fire Department, OH (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

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German Township Fire Department
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Hope Volunteer Fire Department
Hope · volunteer
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 23 personnel

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