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LA Barge Volunteer Fire Department

La Barge, WY · Lincoln County. LA Barge Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department and 15 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.

15
Total personnel
Not reported
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

LA Barge Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Wyoming average.

10th pct.
national personnel size
-48%
vs. Wyoming 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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
0/100
LA Barge 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
No station count on file for this department
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
15 personnel

LA Barge Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department serving La Barge, WY (Lincoln County) and 15 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #20,255 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #20,255 of 22,440
  • WY personnel rank #96 of 115
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 5 other listed departments in Lincoln County

LA Barge 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 23529 · LA Barge Volunteer Fire Department, WY 15 personnel

PERS-MICRO · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-MICRO 15
  • STA-UNK Stations pending
  • TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #20,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Berea
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Berea Fire Department, SC (+ 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 WY department.

Department Profile

Type
Location
La Barge, WY
FDID
23529

Staffing vs the Wyoming average

How LA Barge Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Wyoming. In-state it ranks #96 of 115 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #20,255 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 48% below the state average
Stations
Not reported
State fire deaths/yr
10
WY departments
167

County roster geometry

Lincoln County HIFLD mix around LA Barge Volunteer Fire Department

Lincoln County: 6 departments, 149 personnel (4 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 33% of departments. County / state rollup.

Photo-finish peer: Berea Fire Department, SC (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide departments near 15 personnel

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