Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderHartley 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 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.
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.
- Hartley Emergency… (this dept) 52
- High Rexburg-Madison C…, ID 52
- Near Kingston, NH 52
- Near Shelbyville, IN 52
- Near Saint Stephen, MN 52
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Hartley, IA
- County
- Obrien County
- 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.
- 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
Nationwide volunteer peers near 52 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IA department.