North Kohala Volunteer

What This Data Tells You About North Kohala Volunteer

North Kohala Volunteer operates as a fire department in Kamuela, within Hawaii County, and the HIFLD and USFA records give a precise structural picture of its response capacity. The department reports unreported personnel, no station count on file, no truck inventory reported. EMS capability is listed as active.

Benchmarking against the state gives this profile context. Hawaii has 43 registered fire departments and 2,542 total personnel, averaging roughly 59 staff per department. Direct staffing comparisons are limited where personnel counts are not reported. The state records about 5,800 fires, 6 fire deaths, and 2% volunteer coverage each year, which shapes training, funding priorities, and mutual-aid patterns felt at every department in the state.

No FEMA AFG or SAFER grant awards are recorded against this department's FDID in USAspending data, which is common for smaller or volunteer-heavy organizations that lean on state and local funding instead.