Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Moundsville Volunteer Fire Department

Moundsville, WV · Marshall County. Moundsville Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 60 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.

60
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Moundsville Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the West Virginia average.

Top 12%
national personnel size
+161%
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.

A
PlainFireData Composite Score
93/100
Moundsville 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 A
60 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
60 personnel · 1 station

Moundsville Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Moundsville, WV (Marshall County), with 1 station and 60 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,660 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,660 of 22,440
  • WV personnel rank #17 of 359
  • 1.67 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 16 other listed departments in Marshall County

Moundsville Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

60 Top 12% higher than 88% 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 25109 · Moundsville Volunteer Fire Department, WV 60 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MID 60
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #2,660
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Pleasant Township
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Pleasant Township Fire Department, OH (+ 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
Moundsville, WV
FDID
25109

Staffing vs the West Virginia average

How Moundsville Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in West Virginia. In-state it ranks #17 of 359 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,660 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 161% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
55
WV departments
511

County roster geometry

Marshall County HIFLD mix around Moundsville Volunteer Fire Department

Marshall County: 18 departments, 325 personnel (12 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 67% of departments. County / state rollup.

1.67 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 60 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Pleasant Township Fire Department, OH (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 60 personnel

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