Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Ona Volunteer Fire Department

Ona, WV · Cabell County. Ona 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

Ona Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the West Virginia average.

Top 41%
national personnel size
+39%
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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
72/100
Ona 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

Ona Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Ona, WV (Cabell 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 #9,252 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #9,252 of 22,440
  • WV personnel rank #134 of 359
  • 3.13 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 8 other listed departments in Cabell County

Ona 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 06107 · Ona Volunteer Fire Department, WV 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 #9,252
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Tri-Community
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Tri-Community Fire Department, WI (+ 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
Ona, WV
FDID
06107

Staffing vs the West Virginia average

How Ona Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in West Virginia. In-state it ranks #134 of 359 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,252 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 39% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
55
WV departments
511

County roster geometry

Cabell County HIFLD mix around Ona Volunteer Fire Department

Cabell County: 11 departments, 262 personnel (7 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 55% of departments. County / state rollup.

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

Photo-finish peer: Tri-Community Fire Department, WI (+0 personnel).

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

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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 WV department.