Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Lake Township Volunteer Fire Department

Lake Village, IN · Newton County. Lake Township Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 17 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.

17
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Lake Township Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Indiana average.

15th pct.
national personnel size
-26%
vs. Indiana 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
28/100
Lake Township 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 D
17 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
17 personnel · 1 station

Lake Township Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Lake Village, IN (Newton County), with 1 station and 17 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #19,174 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #19,174 of 22,440
  • IN personnel rank #530 of 589
  • 5.88 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 5 other listed departments in Newton County

Lake Township Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

17 Top 85% higher than 15% 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 56004 · Lake Township Volunteer Fire Department, IN 17 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 17
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #19,174
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Jackson Township…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Jackson Township Fire Association, IA (+ 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 IN department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Lake Village, IN
FDID
56004

Staffing vs the Indiana average

How Lake Township Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Indiana. In-state it ranks #530 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #19,174 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 26% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
94
IN departments
969

County roster geometry

Newton County HIFLD mix around Lake Township Volunteer Fire Department

Newton County: 6 departments, 106 personnel (5 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 100% of departments. County / state rollup.

5.88 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 17 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Jackson Township Fire Association, IA (+0 personnel).

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

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Goodland Volunteer Fire Department
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Kentland Fire Department
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Morocco Volunteer Fire Department
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 17 personnel

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