Department profile
VolunteerPooletown Volunteer Fire Department
Richfield, NC · Rowan County. Pooletown Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 31 total personnel. 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
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Pooletown Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the North Carolina average.
- Top 43%
- national personnel size
- +19%
- vs. North Carolina 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 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.
Pooletown Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Richfield, NC (Rowan 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 #9,704 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #9,704 of 22,440
- NC personnel rank #576 of 932
- 3.23 stations per 100 personnel
- 27 other listed departments in Rowan County
Pooletown 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 08069 · Pooletown Volunteer Fire Department, NC 31 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 31
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-MID #9,704
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ East Greenwich Fi…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: East Greenwich Fire Department - Mount Royal Fire Company, NJ (+ 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 NC department.
- Pooletown Volunte… (this dept) 31
- High Plateau Valley Fi…, CO 31
- Near East Greenwich Fi…, NJ 31
- Near Brownstown Townsh…, MI 31
- Near Gibraltar Public…, MI 31
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Richfield, NC
- County
- Rowan County
- FDID
- 08069
Staffing vs the North Carolina average
How Pooletown Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #576 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,704 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 131
- NC departments
- 1,534
County roster fringe
Pooletown Volunteer Fire Department is 3.6% of Rowan County roster mass
The county lists 32 departments totaling 860 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 47% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.23 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 31 roster).
Photo-finish peer: East Greenwich Fire Department - Mount Royal Fire Company, NJ (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 31 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NC department.