Department profile

Volunteer

Marmet Community Volunteer Fire Department

Marmet, WV · Kanawha County. Marmet Community Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 34 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

34
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Marmet Community Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the West Virginia average.

Top 37%
national personnel size
+48%
vs. West Virginia 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
76/100
Marmet Community 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 B
34 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
34 personnel · 1 station

Marmet Community Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Marmet, WV (Kanawha County), with 1 station and 34 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,414 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #8,414 of 22,440
  • WV personnel rank #114 of 359
  • 2.94 stations per 100 personnel
  • 31 other listed departments in Kanawha County

Marmet Community Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

34 Top 37% higher than 63% 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 20115 · Marmet Community Volunteer Fire Department, WV 34 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 34
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #8,414
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Ripon Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Ripon Volunteer Fire Department, WI (+ 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 WV department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Marmet, WV
FDID
20115

Staffing vs the West Virginia average

How Marmet Community Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in West Virginia. In-state it ranks #114 of 359 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,414 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 48% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
55
WV departments
511

County roster fringe

Marmet Community Volunteer Fire Department is 3.6% of Kanawha County roster mass

The county lists 39 departments totaling 957 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 77% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.94 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 34 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Ripon Volunteer Fire Department, WI (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 34 personnel

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