Department profile

Volunteer

Loving Volunteer Fire Department

Loving, NM · Eddy County. Loving Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 19 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

19
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Loving Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount above the New Mexico average.

19th pct.
national personnel size
+36%
vs. New Mexico average
3
stations

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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
5/100
Loving 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 F
6.3 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
19 personnel · 3 stations

Loving Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Loving, NM (Eddy County), with 3 stations and 19 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #18,067 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #18,067 of 22,440
  • NM personnel rank #121 of 197
  • 15.79 stations per 100 personnel
  • 19 other listed departments in Eddy County

Loving Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

19 Top 81% higher than 19% 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 15061 · Loving Volunteer Fire Department, NM 19 personnel · 3 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 19
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-LOWER #18,067
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bamber Lakes
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Bamber Lakes Fire Department, NJ (+ 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 NM department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Loving, NM
FDID
15061

Staffing vs the New Mexico average

How Loving Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Mexico. In-state it ranks #121 of 197 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #18,067 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 36% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
32
NM departments
446

County roster fringe

Loving Volunteer Fire Department is 6.1% of Eddy County roster mass

The county lists 26 departments totaling 310 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 85% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

15.79 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 19 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Bamber Lakes Fire Department, NJ (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 19 personnel

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