Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Paw Paw Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company

Paw Paw, WV · Morgan County. Paw Paw Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 33 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.

33
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Paw Paw Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the West Virginia average.

Top 39%
national personnel size
+43%
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
75/100
Paw Paw Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company

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
33 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
33 personnel · 1 station

Paw Paw Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company is a Volunteer department serving Paw Paw, WV (Morgan County), with 1 station and 33 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,827 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #8,827 of 22,440
  • WV personnel rank #124 of 359
  • 3.03 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 3 other listed departments in Morgan County

Paw Paw Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

33 Top 39% higher than 61% 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 33103 · Paw Paw Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company, WV 33 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 33
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #8,827
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Midway Fire Distr…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Midway Fire District, FL (+ 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
Paw Paw, WV
FDID
33103

Staffing vs the West Virginia average

How Paw Paw Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in West Virginia. In-state it ranks #124 of 359 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,827 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 43% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
55
WV departments
511

County roster geometry

Morgan County HIFLD mix around Paw Paw Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company

Morgan County: 4 departments, 178 personnel (3 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 25% of departments. County / state rollup.

3.03 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 33 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Midway Fire District, FL (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

Berkeley Springs Volunteer Fire Department
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Great Cacapon Volunteer Fire Department
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South Morgan Volunteer Fire Department
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 33 personnel

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