Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

New Salem Volunteer Fire Department

Rising Fawn, GA · Dade County. New Salem Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 32 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.

32
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

New Salem Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Georgia average.

Top 41%
national personnel size
+88%
vs. Georgia 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
72/100
New Salem 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
32 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
32 personnel · 1 station

New Salem Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Rising Fawn, GA (Dade County), with 1 station and 32 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #9,232 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #9,232 of 22,440
  • GA personnel rank #116 of 328
  • 3.13 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 6 other listed departments in Dade County

New Salem Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

32 Top 41% higher than 59% 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 04104 · New Salem Volunteer Fire Department, GA 32 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 32
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #9,232
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bowne Township
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Bowne Township Fire Department, MI (+ 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 GA department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Rising Fawn, GA
FDID
04104

Staffing vs the Georgia average

How New Salem Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Georgia. In-state it ranks #116 of 328 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,232 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 88% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
128
GA departments
868

County roster weight

New Salem Volunteer Fire Department carries 29.9% of Dade County HIFLD personnel

Among 7 listed departments (107 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 71% of the county count. County / state rollup.

3.13 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 32 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Bowne Township Fire Department, MI (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

New Home Fire Department
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North Dade Volunteer Fire Department
Wildwood · volunteer
South Dade Fire Department
Rising Fawn · other
Trenton Fire Department
Trenton · volunteer
West Brow Fire Department
Lookout Mountain · volunteer
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 32 personnel

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