Department profile

Volunteer

Richwood Volunteer Fire Station

Amagon, AR · Jackson County. Richwood Volunteer Fire Station is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 22 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

22
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Not reported
EMS service

The verdict

Richwood Volunteer Fire Station pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well above the Arkansas average.

29th pct.
national personnel size
+69%
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
9/100
Richwood Volunteer Fire Station

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
11 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
22 personnel · 2 stations

Richwood Volunteer Fire Station is a Volunteer department serving Amagon, AR (Jackson County), with 2 stations and 22 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #15,932 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #15,932 of 22,440
  • AR personnel rank #270 of 604
  • 9.09 stations per 100 personnel
  • 11 other listed departments in Jackson County

Richwood Volunteer Fire Station vs. the national personnel distribution

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

22 Top 71% higher than 29% 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 34000 · Richwood Volunteer Fire Station, AR 22 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 22
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-UNK EMS pending
  • RANK-LOWER #15,932
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bowerston Volunte…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Bowerston Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department, OH (+ 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
Amagon, AR
FDID
34000

Staffing vs the Arkansas average

How Richwood Volunteer Fire Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arkansas. In-state it ranks #270 of 604 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #15,932 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 69% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
68
AR departments
1,168

County roster geometry

Jackson County HIFLD mix around Richwood Volunteer Fire Station

Jackson County: 12 departments, 147 personnel (8 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 17% of departments. County / state rollup.

9.09 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 22 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Bowerston Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department, OH (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 22 personnel

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