Department profile

Volunteer

Salem-Ryal Volunteer Fire Department

Salem, OK · Mcintosh County. Salem-Ryal Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 13 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

13
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Salem-Ryal Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount in line with the Oklahoma average.

6th pct.
national personnel size
+8%
vs. Oklahoma 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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
14/100
Salem-Ryal Volunteer 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
13 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
13 personnel · 1 station

Salem-Ryal Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Salem, OK (Mcintosh County), with 1 station and 13 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #21,203 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #21,203 of 22,440
  • OK personnel rank #431 of 513
  • 7.69 stations per 100 personnel
  • 18 other listed departments in Mcintosh County

Salem-Ryal Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

13 Top 94% higher than 6% 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 49008 · Salem-Ryal Volunteer Fire Department, OK 13 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MICRO 13
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-LOWER #21,203
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Santa Fe County V…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Santa Fe County Volunteer Fire - Stanley District, NM (+ 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 OK department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Salem, OK
FDID
49008

Staffing vs the Oklahoma average

How Salem-Ryal Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Oklahoma. In-state it ranks #431 of 513 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #21,203 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 8% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
68
OK departments
1,049

County roster fringe

Salem-Ryal Volunteer Fire Department is 7.6% of Mcintosh County roster mass

The county lists 20 departments totaling 172 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 10% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

7.69 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 13 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Santa Fe County Volunteer Fire - Stanley District, NM (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 13 personnel

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