Department profile
OtherEMS ProviderRaber Township Volunteer Fire Department
Goetzville, MI · Chippewa County. Raber Township Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department and 26 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.
- 26
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Raber Township Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount above the Michigan average.
- 43rd pct.
- national personnel size
- +18%
- vs. Michigan average
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.
Raber Township Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department serving Goetzville, MI (Chippewa County) and 26 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #12,831 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #12,831 of 22,440
- MI personnel rank #389 of 1,008
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 18 other listed departments in Chippewa County
Raber Township Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
26 Top 57% higher than 43% 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 01717 · Raber Township Volunteer Fire Department, MI 26 personnel
PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 26
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-MID #12,831
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Vergennes Volunte…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Vergennes Volunteer Fire Department, VT (+ 0 personnel)
Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every MI department.
- Raber Township Vo… (this dept) 26
- High Castleberry Volun…, AL 26
- Near Vergennes Volunte…, VT 26
- Near Firth Rural Fire…, NE 26
- Near Hygiene Fire Prot…, CO 26
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Goetzville, MI
- County
- Chippewa County
- FDID
- 01717
Staffing vs the Michigan average
How Raber Township Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Michigan. In-state it ranks #389 of 1,008 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #12,831 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 112
- MI departments
- 1,274
County roster fringe
Raber Township Volunteer Fire Department is 9.5% of Chippewa County roster mass
The county lists 19 departments totaling 275 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 63% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Vergennes Volunteer Fire Department, VT (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 26 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MI department.