Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Montville Fire and Rescue

Montville, OH · Geauga County. Montville Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 19 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.

19
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Montville Fire and Rescue pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Ohio average.

19th pct.
national personnel size
-37%
vs. Ohio 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
35/100
Montville Fire and Rescue

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
19 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
19 personnel · 1 station

Montville Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Montville, OH (Geauga County), with 1 station and 19 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #18,095 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #18,095 of 22,440
  • OH personnel rank #989 of 1,108
  • 5.26 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 14 other listed departments in Geauga County

Montville Fire and Rescue 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 28119 · Montville Fire and Rescue, OH 19 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 19
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #18,095
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bluewell Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Bluewell 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 OH department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Montville, OH
FDID
28119

Staffing vs the Ohio average

How Montville Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #989 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #18,095 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 37% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
138
OH departments
1,501

County roster fringe

Montville Fire and Rescue is 3.6% of Geauga County roster mass

The county lists 16 departments totaling 522 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 88% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

5.26 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 19 roster).

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

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

Nearby Departments

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 19 personnel

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