Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Hartford Volunteer Fire and Rescue

Hartford, IA · Warren County. Hartford Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 15 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.

15
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Hartford Volunteer Fire and Rescue pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Iowa average.

10th pct.
national personnel size
-25%
vs. Iowa 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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
21/100
Hartford Volunteer Fire and Rescue

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 D
15 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
15 personnel · 1 station

Hartford Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Hartford, IA (Warren County), with 1 station and 15 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #20,192 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #20,192 of 22,440
  • IA personnel rank #543 of 589
  • 6.67 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 8 other listed departments in Warren County

Hartford Volunteer Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

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

15 Top 90% higher than 10% 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 91004 · Hartford Volunteer Fire and Rescue, IA 15 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MICRO 15
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #20,192
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Croydon Volunteer…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Croydon Volunteer Fire and Rescue, NH (+ 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 IA department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Hartford, IA
FDID
91004

Staffing vs the Iowa average

How Hartford Volunteer Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Iowa. In-state it ranks #543 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #20,192 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 25% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
39
IA departments
810

County roster fringe

Hartford Volunteer Fire and Rescue is 6.3% of Warren County roster mass

The county lists 9 departments totaling 238 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 100% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.67 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 15 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Croydon Volunteer Fire and Rescue, NH (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 15 personnel

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