Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Mount Rogers Volunteer Fire Department

Whitetop, VA · Grayson County. Mount Rogers Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 59 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.

59
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Mount Rogers Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Virginia average.

Top 12%
national personnel size
+79%
vs. Virginia average
2
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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
66/100
Mount Rogers 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
29.5 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
59 personnel · 2 stations

Mount Rogers Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Whitetop, VA (Grayson County), with 2 stations and 59 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,783 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,783 of 22,440
  • VA personnel rank #79 of 414
  • 3.39 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 5 other listed departments in Grayson County

Mount Rogers Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

59 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 07704 · Mount Rogers Volunteer Fire Department, VA 59 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-MID 59
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #2,783
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lumberton
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Lumberton Fire Department, NC (+ 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 VA department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Whitetop, VA
FDID
07704

Staffing vs the Virginia average

How Mount Rogers Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Virginia. In-state it ranks #79 of 414 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,783 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 79% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
86
VA departments
766

County roster weight

Mount Rogers Volunteer Fire Department carries 33.3% of Grayson County HIFLD personnel

Among 6 listed departments (177 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 83% of the county count. County / state rollup.

3.39 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 59 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Lumberton Fire Department, NC (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 59 personnel

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