Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderLA Place Volunteer Fire Department
Laplace, LA · St John The Baptist County. LA Place Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 5 stations and 64 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.
- 64
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
LA Place Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Louisiana average.
- Top 10%
- national personnel size
- +146%
- vs. Louisiana average
- 5
- 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.
LA Place Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Laplace, LA (St John The Baptist County), with 5 stations and 64 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,314 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,314 of 22,440
- LA personnel rank #26 of 342
- 7.81 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 5 other listed departments in St John The Baptist County
LA Place Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
64 Top 10% higher than 90% 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 48005 · LA Place Volunteer Fire Department, LA 64 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 64
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,314
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Plainfield Townsh…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Plainfield Township Volunteer Fire Company / Plainfield Township Ambulance Corps, 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 LA department.
- LA Place Volunteer (this dept) 64
- High Rockledge Fire Co…, PA 64
- Near Plainfield Townsh…, PA 64
- Near Sylvania Township, OH 64
- Near Rincon Valley Fir…, CA 64
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Laplace, LA
- FDID
- 48005
Staffing vs the Louisiana average
How LA Place Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Louisiana. In-state it ranks #26 of 342 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,314 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 96
- LA departments
- 786
County roster weight
LA Place Volunteer Fire Department carries 46.4% of St John The Baptist County HIFLD personnel
Among 8 listed departments (138 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 50% of the county count. County / state rollup.
7.81 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 64 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Plainfield Township Volunteer Fire Company / Plainfield Township Ambulance Corps, PA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 64 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every LA department.