Department profile

Volunteer

Portal Volunteer Fire Department

Portal, GA · Bulloch County. Portal Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 10 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

10
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Portal Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Georgia average.

2nd pct.
national personnel size
-41%
vs. Georgia 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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
8/100
Portal 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 F
10 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
10 personnel · 1 station

Portal Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Portal, GA (Bulloch County), with 1 station and 10 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,016 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #22,016 of 22,440
  • GA personnel rank #317 of 328
  • 10.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • 8 other listed departments in Bulloch County

Portal Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

10 Top 98% higher than 2% 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 01602 · Portal Volunteer Fire Department, GA 10 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MICRO 10
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-LOWER #22,016
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ South Arkansas Fi…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: South Arkansas Fire Protection District, CO (+ 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 GA department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Portal, GA
FDID
01602

Staffing vs the Georgia average

How Portal Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Georgia. In-state it ranks #317 of 328 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,016 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 41% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
128
GA departments
868

County roster geometry

Bulloch County HIFLD mix around Portal Volunteer Fire Department

Bulloch County: 10 departments, 49 personnel (1 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 20% of departments. County / state rollup.

10.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 10 roster).

Photo-finish peer: South Arkansas Fire Protection District, CO (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 10 personnel

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