Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Pleasant Lake Volunteer Fire Department

Pleasant Lake, IN · Steuben County. Pleasant Lake Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 19 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.

19
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Pleasant Lake Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Indiana average.

19th pct.
national personnel size
-17%
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
35/100
Pleasant Lake 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 D
19 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
19 personnel · 1 station

Pleasant Lake Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Pleasant Lake, IN (Steuben County), with 1 station and 19 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #18,148 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #18,148 of 22,440
  • IN personnel rank #490 of 589
  • 5.26 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 8 other listed departments in Steuben County

Pleasant Lake Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

19 Top 81% higher than 19% 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 76009 · Pleasant Lake Volunteer Fire Department, IN 19 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 19
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #18,148
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Rolfe
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Rolfe Fire Department, 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
Pleasant Lake, IN
FDID
76009

Staffing vs the Indiana average

How Pleasant Lake Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Indiana. In-state it ranks #490 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #18,148 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 17% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
94
IN departments
969

County roster fringe

Pleasant Lake Volunteer Fire Department is 8.4% of Steuben County roster mass

The county lists 9 departments totaling 227 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 67% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

5.26 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 19 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Rolfe Fire Department, IA (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 19 personnel

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