Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Iota Volunteer Fire Department

Iota, LA · Acadia County. Iota Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 39 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.

39
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Iota Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Louisiana average.

Top 29%
national personnel size
+50%
vs. Louisiana 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
82/100
Iota Volunteer Fire Department

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
39 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
39 personnel · 1 station

Iota Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Iota, LA (Acadia County), with 1 station and 39 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #6,527 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #6,527 of 22,440
  • LA personnel rank #75 of 342
  • 2.56 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 12 other listed departments in Acadia County

Iota Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

39 Top 29% higher than 71% 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 01030 · Iota Volunteer Fire Department, LA 39 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 39
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #6,527
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Adams County Fire…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Adams County Fire District, WI (+ 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 LA department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Iota, LA
FDID
01030

Staffing vs the Louisiana average

How Iota Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Louisiana. In-state it ranks #75 of 342 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #6,527 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 50% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
96
LA departments
786

County roster geometry

Acadia County HIFLD mix around Iota Volunteer Fire Department

Acadia County: 19 departments, 343 personnel (7 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 89% of departments. County / state rollup.

2.56 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 39 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Adams County Fire District, WI (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 39 personnel

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