Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Hartley Emergency Fire and Ambulance Response Team

Hartley, IA · Obrien County. Hartley Emergency Fire and Ambulance Response Team is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 52 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.

52
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Hartley Emergency Fire and Ambulance Response Team pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Iowa average.

Top 16%
national personnel size
+160%
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.

A
PlainFireData Composite Score
91/100
Hartley Emergency Fire and Ambulance Response Team

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 A
52 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
52 personnel · 1 station

Hartley Emergency Fire and Ambulance Response Team is a Volunteer department serving Hartley, IA (Obrien County), with 1 station and 52 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,586 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #3,586 of 22,440
  • IA personnel rank #24 of 589
  • 1.92 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 5 other listed departments in Obrien County

Hartley Emergency Fire and Ambulance Response Team vs. the national personnel distribution

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

52 Top 16% higher than 84% 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 71005 · Hartley Emergency Fire and Ambulance Response Team, IA 52 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MID 52
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #3,586
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Kingston
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Kingston Fire Department, 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
Hartley, IA
FDID
71005

Staffing vs the Iowa average

How Hartley Emergency Fire and Ambulance Response Team's personnel count compares to the typical department in Iowa. In-state it ranks #24 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,586 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 160% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
39
IA departments
810

County roster weight

Hartley Emergency Fire and Ambulance Response Team carries 40.3% of Obrien County HIFLD personnel

Among 6 listed departments (129 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 83% of the county count. County / state rollup.

1.92 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 52 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Kingston Fire Department, NH (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 52 personnel

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