Department profile

Volunteer

Knoxville Volunteer Fire Department

Toronto, OH · Jefferson County. Knoxville Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 29 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

29
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Knoxville Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the Ohio average.

Top 49%
national personnel size
-3%
vs. Ohio 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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
64/100
Knoxville 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 B
29 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
29 personnel · 1 station

Knoxville Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Toronto, OH (Jefferson County), with 1 station and 29 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #11,091 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #11,091 of 22,440
  • OH personnel rank #639 of 1,108
  • 3.45 stations per 100 personnel
  • 26 other listed departments in Jefferson County

Knoxville Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

29 Top 49% higher than 51% 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 41251 · Knoxville Volunteer Fire Department, OH 29 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 29
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-MID #11,091
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Coal City Volunte…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Coal City Volunteer Fire Department, WV (+ 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 OH department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Toronto, OH
FDID
41251

Staffing vs the Ohio average

How Knoxville Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #639 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #11,091 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 3% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
138
OH departments
1,501

County roster fringe

Knoxville Volunteer Fire Department is 4.2% of Jefferson County roster mass

The county lists 28 departments totaling 695 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 64% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.45 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 29 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Coal City Volunteer Fire Department, WV (+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 29 personnel

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