Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Lake Tillery Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad 10

Mount Gilead, NC · Montgomery County. Lake Tillery Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad 10 is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 32 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.

32
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Lake Tillery Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad 10 pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the North Carolina average.

Top 41%
national personnel size
+23%
vs. North Carolina 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
72/100
Lake Tillery Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad 10

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
32 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
32 personnel · 1 station

Lake Tillery Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad 10 is a Volunteer department serving Mount Gilead, NC (Montgomery County), with 1 station and 32 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #9,152 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #9,152 of 22,440
  • NC personnel rank #524 of 932
  • 3.13 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 10 other listed departments in Montgomery County

Lake Tillery Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad 10 vs. the national personnel distribution

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

32 Top 41% higher than 59% 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 06210 · Lake Tillery Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad 10, NC 32 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 32
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #9,152
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Ona Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Ona 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 NC department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Mount Gilead, NC
FDID
06210

Staffing vs the North Carolina average

How Lake Tillery Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad 10's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #524 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,152 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 23% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
131
NC departments
1,534

County roster geometry

Montgomery County HIFLD mix around Lake Tillery Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad 10

Montgomery County: 11 departments, 259 personnel (7 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 27% of departments. County / state rollup.

3.13 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 32 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Ona Volunteer Fire Department, WV (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 32 personnel

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