Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Pineville Volunteer Fire Department

Pineville, WV · Wyoming County. Pineville Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 31 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.

31
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

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

Top 43%
national personnel size
+35%
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
70/100
Pineville 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
31 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
31 personnel · 1 station

Pineville Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Pineville, WV (Wyoming County), with 1 station and 31 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #9,696 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #9,696 of 22,440
  • WV personnel rank #145 of 359
  • 3.23 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 8 other listed departments in Wyoming County

Pineville Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

31 Top 43% higher than 57% 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 55105 · Pineville Volunteer Fire Department, WV 31 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 31
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #9,696
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Woodsfield Volunt…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Woodsfield Volunteer Fire Department, OH (+ 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
Pineville, WV
FDID
55105

Staffing vs the West Virginia average

How Pineville Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in West Virginia. In-state it ranks #145 of 359 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,696 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 35% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
55
WV departments
511

County roster geometry

Wyoming County HIFLD mix around Pineville Volunteer Fire Department

Wyoming County: 9 departments, 148 personnel (5 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 100% of departments. County / state rollup.

3.23 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 31 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Woodsfield Volunteer Fire Department, OH (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 31 personnel

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