Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Lake Mishnock Volunteer Fire Department

West Greenwich, RI · Kent County. Lake Mishnock Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 48 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.

48
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Lake Mishnock Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Rhode Island average.

Top 19%
national personnel size
+26%
vs. Rhode Island 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.

A
PlainFireData Composite Score
90/100
Lake Mishnock 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 A
48 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
48 personnel · 1 station

Lake Mishnock Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving West Greenwich, RI (Kent County), with 1 station and 48 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,293 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #4,293 of 22,440
  • RI personnel rank #23 of 66
  • 2.08 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 12 other listed departments in Kent County

Lake Mishnock Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

48 Top 19% higher than 81% 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 03703 · Lake Mishnock Volunteer Fire Department, RI 48 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 48
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #4,293
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Morrison Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Morrison 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 RI department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
West Greenwich, RI
FDID
03703

Staffing vs the Rhode Island average

How Lake Mishnock Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Rhode Island. In-state it ranks #23 of 66 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,293 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 26% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
9
RI departments
111

County roster fringe

Lake Mishnock Volunteer Fire Department is 8.2% of Kent County roster mass

The county lists 18 departments totaling 582 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 72% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.08 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 48 roster).

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

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 48 personnel

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