Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Pleasantville Emergency Services

Pleasantville, IA · Marion County. Pleasantville Emergency Services is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 45 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.

45
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Pleasantville Emergency Services pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Iowa average.

Top 22%
national personnel size
+125%
vs. Iowa 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.

A
PlainFireData Composite Score
89/100
Pleasantville Emergency Services

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 A
45 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
45 personnel · 1 station

Pleasantville Emergency Services is a Volunteer department serving Pleasantville, IA (Marion County), with 1 station and 45 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,974 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #4,974 of 22,440
  • IA personnel rank #43 of 589
  • 2.22 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 8 other listed departments in Marion County

Pleasantville Emergency Services vs. the national personnel distribution

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

45 Top 22% higher than 78% 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 63012 · Pleasantville Emergency Services, IA 45 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 45
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #4,974
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Stockdale Volunte…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Stockdale Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+ 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 IA department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Pleasantville, IA
FDID
63012

Staffing vs the Iowa average

How Pleasantville Emergency Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in Iowa. In-state it ranks #43 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,974 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 125% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
39
IA departments
810

County roster weight

Pleasantville Emergency Services carries 26.2% of Marion County HIFLD personnel

Among 9 listed departments (172 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 78% of the county count. County / state rollup.

2.22 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 45 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Stockdale Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+0 personnel).

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

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Pella Fire Department
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 45 personnel

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