Department profile

Volunteer

Mount Vernon Volunteer Fire Department

Mount Vernon, AR · Faulkner County. Mount Vernon Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 31 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

31
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Not reported
EMS service

The verdict

Mount Vernon Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount more than double the Arkansas average.

Top 43%
national personnel size
+138%
vs. Arkansas 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
70/100
Mount Vernon 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
31 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
31 personnel · 1 station

Mount Vernon Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Mount Vernon, AR (Faulkner County), with 1 station and 31 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #9,664 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #9,664 of 22,440
  • AR personnel rank #102 of 604
  • 3.23 stations per 100 personnel
  • 19 other listed departments in Faulkner County

Mount Vernon Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

31 Top 43% higher than 57% 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 23003 · Mount Vernon Volunteer Fire Department, AR 31 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-SMALL 31
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-UNK EMS pending
  • RANK-MID #9,664
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Petersburg Volunt…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Petersburg Volunteer Fire and Rescue, NE (+ 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 AR department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Mount Vernon, AR
FDID
23003

Staffing vs the Arkansas average

How Mount Vernon Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arkansas. In-state it ranks #102 of 604 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,664 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 138% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
68
AR departments
1,168

County roster fringe

Mount Vernon Volunteer Fire Department is 7.9% of Faulkner County roster mass

The county lists 22 departments totaling 392 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 0% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.23 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 31 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Petersburg Volunteer Fire and Rescue, NE (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 31 personnel

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