Department profile
VolunteerRiceville - Java Volunteer Fire Department
Java, VA · Pittsylvania County. Riceville - Java Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 29 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 29
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Riceville - Java Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the Virginia average.
- Top 50%
- national personnel size
- -12%
- vs. Virginia 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.
Riceville - Java Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Java, VA (Pittsylvania County), with 1 station and 29 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #11,189 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #11,189 of 22,440
- VA personnel rank #307 of 414
- 3.45 stations per 100 personnel
- 23 other listed departments in Pittsylvania County
Riceville - Java Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
29 Top 50% higher than 50% 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 14301 · Riceville - Java Volunteer Fire Department, VA 29 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 29
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-MID #11,189
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Dilworth Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Dilworth Volunteer Fire Department, MN (+ 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 VA department.
- Riceville - Java… (this dept) 29
- High Marne City, IA 29
- Near Dilworth Volunteer, MN 29
- Near Juniata Rural Fir…, NE 29
- Near Arcadia, IA 29
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Java, VA
- County
- Pittsylvania County
- FDID
- 14301
Staffing vs the Virginia average
How Riceville - Java Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Virginia. In-state it ranks #307 of 414 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #11,189 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 86
- VA departments
- 766
County roster fringe
Riceville - Java Volunteer Fire Department is 3.3% of Pittsylvania County roster mass
The county lists 24 departments totaling 867 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 50% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.45 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 29 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Dilworth Volunteer Fire Department, MN (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 29 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every VA department.