Department profile

Volunteer

Ratcliff Rural Fire Department

Ratcliff, AR · Logan County. Ratcliff Rural Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 20 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

20
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Not reported
EMS service

The verdict

Ratcliff Rural Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well above the Arkansas average.

22nd pct.
national personnel size
+54%
vs. Arkansas 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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
8/100
Ratcliff Rural 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
20 personnel · 2 stations

Ratcliff Rural Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Ratcliff, AR (Logan County), with 2 stations and 20 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #17,550 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #17,550 of 22,440
  • AR personnel rank #333 of 604
  • 10.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • 21 other listed departments in Logan County

Ratcliff Rural Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

20 Top 78% higher than 22% 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 42017 · Ratcliff Rural Fire Department, AR 20 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-SMALL 20
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-UNK EMS pending
  • RANK-LOWER #17,550
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lafayette Townshi…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Lafayette Township Volunteer Fire and Rescue, PA (+ 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 AR department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Ratcliff, AR
FDID
42017

Staffing vs the Arkansas average

How Ratcliff Rural Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arkansas. In-state it ranks #333 of 604 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #17,550 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 54% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
68
AR departments
1,168

County roster fringe

Ratcliff Rural Fire Department is 6.5% of Logan County roster mass

The county lists 25 departments totaling 309 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 4% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

10.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 20 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Lafayette Township Volunteer Fire and Rescue, PA (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 20 personnel

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