Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderRowan - Iredell Volunteer Fire Department
Cleveland, NC · Rowan County. Rowan - Iredell Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 22 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.
- 22
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Rowan - Iredell Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the North Carolina average.
- 29th pct.
- national personnel size
- -15%
- vs. North Carolina 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.
Rowan - Iredell Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Cleveland, NC (Rowan County), with 1 station and 22 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #15,948 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #15,948 of 22,440
- NC personnel rank #877 of 932
- 4.55 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 27 other listed departments in Rowan County
Rowan - Iredell Volunteer Fire Department 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 08072 · Rowan - Iredell Volunteer Fire Department, NC 22 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 22
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #15,948
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Franklin Township…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Franklin Township Volunteer Fire Department, 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 NC department.
- Rowan - Iredell V… (this dept) 22
- High Lake Creek Volunt…, MO 22
- Near Franklin Township…, PA 22
- Near Hydro Volunteer, OK 22
- Near Higginsport Lewis…, OH 22
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Cleveland, NC
- County
- Rowan County
- FDID
- 08072
Staffing vs the North Carolina average
How Rowan - Iredell Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #877 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #15,948 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 131
- NC departments
- 1,534
County roster fringe
Rowan - Iredell Volunteer Fire Department is 2.6% of Rowan County roster mass
The county lists 32 departments totaling 860 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 47% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.55 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 22 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Franklin Township Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 22 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NC department.