Department profile
VolunteerPort Wing Volunteer Fire Department
Port Wing, WI · Bayfield County. Port Wing Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 19 total personnel. 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
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Port Wing Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Wisconsin average.
- 19th pct.
- national personnel size
- -32%
- vs. Wisconsin 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.
Port Wing Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Port Wing, WI (Bayfield 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 #18,154 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #18,154 of 22,440
- WI personnel rank #650 of 695
- 5.26 stations per 100 personnel
- 12 other listed departments in Bayfield County
Port Wing 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 04170 · Port Wing Volunteer Fire Department, WI 19 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 19
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #18,154
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Oakfield Township
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Oakfield Township Fire Department, MI (+ 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 WI department.
- Port Wing Volunte… (this dept) 19
- High Clinton Rural Fir…, MT 19
- Near Oakfield Township, MI 19
- Near Cannon Township, MI 19
- Near White Township Vo…, PA 19
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Port Wing, WI
- County
- Bayfield County
- FDID
- 04170
Staffing vs the Wisconsin average
How Port Wing Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Wisconsin. In-state it ranks #650 of 695 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #18,154 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 54
- WI departments
- 961
County roster fringe
Port Wing Volunteer Fire Department is 9.7% of Bayfield County roster mass
The county lists 13 departments totaling 196 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 54% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.26 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 19 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Oakfield Township Fire Department, MI (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 19 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every WI department.