Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Orange Township Fire Department

Rome City, IN · Noble County. Orange Township Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 35 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.

35
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Orange Township Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Indiana average.

Top 36%
national personnel size
+52%
vs. Indiana 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
77/100
Orange Township 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
35 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
35 personnel · 1 station

Orange Township Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Rome City, IN (Noble County), with 1 station and 35 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,020 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #8,020 of 22,440
  • IN personnel rank #158 of 589
  • 2.86 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 7 other listed departments in Noble County

Orange Township Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

35 Top 36% higher than 64% 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 57007 · Orange Township Fire Department, IN 35 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 35
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #8,020
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lisbon Fire and R…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Lisbon Fire and Rescue, IA (+ 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 IN department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Rome City, IN
FDID
57007

Staffing vs the Indiana average

How Orange Township Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Indiana. In-state it ranks #158 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,020 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 52% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
94
IN departments
969

County roster geometry

Noble County HIFLD mix around Orange Township Fire Department

Noble County: 9 departments, 244 personnel (7 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 89% of departments. County / state rollup.

2.86 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 35 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Lisbon Fire and Rescue, IA (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 35 personnel

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