Department profile
VolunteerLatham Dog Creek Fire Department
Shady Point, OK · Le Flore County. Latham Dog Creek Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 9 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 9
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Latham Dog Creek Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Oklahoma average.
- 1st pct.
- national personnel size
- -25%
- vs. Oklahoma 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 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.
Latham Dog Creek Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Shady Point, OK (Le Flore County), with 1 station and 9 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,119 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #22,119 of 22,440
- OK personnel rank #495 of 513
- 11.11 stations per 100 personnel
- 30 other listed departments in Le Flore County
Latham Dog Creek Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
9 Top 99% higher than 1% 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 40026 · Latham Dog Creek Fire Department, OK 9 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MICRO 9
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #22,119
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Oakland Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Oakland Volunteer Fire Department, TN (+ 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 OK department.
- Latham Dog Creek (this dept) 9
- High Boulder Volunteer…, WY 9
- Near Oakland Volunteer, TN 9
- Near North Sabine Fire…, LA 9
- Near New Orleans Lakef…, LA 9
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Shady Point, OK
- County
- Le Flore County
- FDID
- 40026
Staffing vs the Oklahoma average
How Latham Dog Creek Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Oklahoma. In-state it ranks #495 of 513 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,119 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 68
- OK departments
- 1,049
County roster fringe
Latham Dog Creek Fire Department is 3.6% of Le Flore County roster mass
The county lists 32 departments totaling 253 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 13% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
11.11 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 9 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Oakland Volunteer Fire Department, TN (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 9 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OK department.