Department profile
VolunteerHighway 15 Volunteer Fire Department
Pine Bluff, AR · Jefferson County. Highway 15 Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 4 stations and 30 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 30
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Highway 15 Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount more than double the Arkansas average.
- Top 46%
- national personnel size
- +131%
- vs. Arkansas average
- 4
- stations
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.
Highway 15 Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Pine Bluff, AR (Jefferson County), with 4 stations and 30 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #10,241 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #10,241 of 22,440
- AR personnel rank #117 of 604
- 13.33 stations per 100 personnel
- 15 other listed departments in Jefferson County
Highway 15 Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
30 Top 46% higher than 54% 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 35011 · Highway 15 Volunteer Fire Department, AR 30 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 30
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-MID #10,241
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Newton Ransom Vol…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Newton Ransom Volunteer Fire Company, PA (+ 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.
- Highway 15 Volunt… (this dept) 30
- High Canandaigua Fire…, NY 30
- Near Newton Ransom Vol…, PA 30
- Near Markle Volunteer…, IN 30
- Near Martinsburg Volun…, NE 30
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Pine Bluff, AR
- County
- Jefferson County
- FDID
- 35011
Staffing vs the Arkansas average
How Highway 15 Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arkansas. In-state it ranks #117 of 604 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #10,241 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 68
- AR departments
- 1,168
County roster fringe
Highway 15 Volunteer Fire Department is 9.5% of Jefferson County roster mass
The county lists 17 departments totaling 316 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 6% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
13.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 30 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Newton Ransom Volunteer Fire Company, PA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 30 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AR department.