Department profile

Volunteer

Patterson Volunteer Fire Station

Patterson, AR · Woodruff County. Patterson Volunteer Fire Station is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 13 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

13
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Not reported
EMS service

The verdict

Patterson Volunteer Fire Station pairs modest national personnel with a headcount in line with the Arkansas average.

6th pct.
national personnel size
+0%
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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
14/100
Patterson Volunteer Fire Station

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 F
13 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
13 personnel · 1 station

Patterson Volunteer Fire Station is a Volunteer department serving Patterson, AR (Woodruff County), with 1 station and 13 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #21,179 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #21,179 of 22,440
  • AR personnel rank #546 of 604
  • 7.69 stations per 100 personnel
  • 4 other listed departments in Woodruff County

Patterson Volunteer Fire Station vs. the national personnel distribution

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

13 Top 94% higher than 6% 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 74003 · Patterson Volunteer Fire Station, AR 13 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MICRO 13
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-UNK EMS pending
  • RANK-LOWER #21,179
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ South Hampton Fir…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: South Hampton Fire/Rescue, NH (+ 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
Patterson, AR
FDID
74003

Staffing vs the Arkansas average

How Patterson Volunteer Fire Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arkansas. In-state it ranks #546 of 604 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #21,179 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 0% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
68
AR departments
1,168

County roster geometry

Woodruff County HIFLD mix around Patterson Volunteer Fire Station

Woodruff County: 6 departments, 56 personnel (5 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 0% of departments. County / state rollup.

7.69 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 13 roster).

Photo-finish peer: South Hampton Fire/Rescue, NH (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 13 personnel

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