Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Raleigh Fire Department and Ambulance Service

Mays, IN · Rush County. Raleigh Fire Department and Ambulance Service is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 35 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.

35
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Raleigh Fire Department and Ambulance Service pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Indiana average.

Top 36%
national personnel size
+52%
vs. Indiana average
2
stations

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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
30/100
Raleigh Fire Department and Ambulance Service

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 D
17.5 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
35 personnel · 2 stations

Raleigh Fire Department and Ambulance Service is a Volunteer department serving Mays, IN (Rush County), with 2 stations and 35 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,053 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #8,053 of 22,440
  • IN personnel rank #159 of 589
  • 5.71 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 7 other listed departments in Rush County

Raleigh Fire Department and Ambulance Service vs. the national personnel distribution

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

35 Top 36% higher than 64% 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 70007 · Raleigh Fire Department and Ambulance Service, IN 35 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 35
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #8,053
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Wilton
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Wilton Fire Department, IA (+ 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 IN department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Mays, IN
FDID
70007

Staffing vs the Indiana average

How Raleigh Fire Department and Ambulance Service's personnel count compares to the typical department in Indiana. In-state it ranks #159 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,053 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 52% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
94
IN departments
969

County roster weight

Raleigh Fire Department and Ambulance Service carries 27.6% of Rush County HIFLD personnel

Among 8 listed departments (127 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 50% of the county count. County / state rollup.

5.71 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 35 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Wilton Fire Department, IA (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 35 personnel

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