Department profile
OtherKnight Volunteer Fire Department
De Ridder, LA · Vernon County. Knight Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department and 15 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 15
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Knight Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Louisiana average.
- 10th pct.
- national personnel size
- -42%
- vs. Louisiana average
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.
Knight Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department serving De Ridder, LA (Vernon County) and 15 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #20,253 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #20,253 of 22,440
- LA personnel rank #286 of 342
- 21 other listed departments in Vernon County
Knight Volunteer Fire Department 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 58070 · Knight Volunteer Fire Department, LA 15 personnel
PERS-MICRO · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MICRO 15
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #20,253
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Wyandotte
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Wyandotte Fire Department, OK (+ 0 personnel)
Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every LA department.
- Knight Volunteer (this dept) 15
- High Derby Volunteer, IA 15
- Near Wyandotte, OK 15
- Near Loma Rica - Brown…, CA 15
- Near Oil Springs Volun…, KY 15
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- De Ridder, LA
- County
- Vernon County
- FDID
- 58070
Staffing vs the Louisiana average
How Knight Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Louisiana. In-state it ranks #286 of 342 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #20,253 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 96
- LA departments
- 786
County roster fringe
Knight Volunteer Fire Department is 4.2% of Vernon County roster mass
The county lists 23 departments totaling 357 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 35% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Wyandotte Fire Department, OK (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 15 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every LA department.