Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Lafferty Fire and Emergency Medical Services

Lafferty, OH · Belmont County. Lafferty Fire and Emergency Medical Services is a Volunteer department, 1 station 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
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Lafferty Fire and Emergency Medical Services pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Ohio average.

10th pct.
national personnel size
-50%
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
21/100
Lafferty Fire and Emergency Medical Services

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 D
15 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
15 personnel · 1 station

Lafferty Fire and Emergency Medical Services is a Volunteer department serving Lafferty, OH (Belmont County), with 1 station and 15 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #20,261 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #20,261 of 22,440
  • OH personnel rank #1,067 of 1,108
  • 6.67 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 23 other listed departments in Belmont County

Lafferty Fire and Emergency Medical Services 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 07215 · Lafferty Fire and Emergency Medical Services, OH 15 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MICRO 15
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #20,261
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lilbourn Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Lilbourn Volunteer Fire Department, MO (+ 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
Lafferty, OH
FDID
07215

Staffing vs the Ohio average

How Lafferty Fire and Emergency Medical Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #1,067 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #20,261 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 50% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
138
OH departments
1,501

County roster fringe

Lafferty Fire and Emergency Medical Services is 1.9% of Belmont County roster mass

The county lists 26 departments totaling 791 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 88% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.67 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 15 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Lilbourn Volunteer Fire Department, MO (+0 personnel).

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

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Belmont Volunteer Fire Department
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Bridgeport Volunteer Fire Department
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 15 personnel

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