Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderSissonville Millertown Pocatalico and Guthrie Volunteer Fire Department - Huston Station
Charleston, WV · Kanawha County. Sissonville Millertown Pocatalico and Guthrie Volunteer Fire Department - Huston Station is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 36 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.
- 36
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Sissonville Millertown Pocatalico and Guthrie Volunteer Fire Department - Huston Station pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the West Virginia average.
- Top 33%
- national personnel size
- +57%
- vs. West Virginia average
- 3
- 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.
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.
Sissonville Millertown Pocatalico and Guthrie Volunteer Fire Department - Huston Station is a Volunteer department serving Charleston, WV (Kanawha County), with 3 stations and 36 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,487 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #7,487 of 22,440
- WV personnel rank #91 of 359
- 8.33 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 31 other listed departments in Kanawha County
Sissonville Millertown Pocatalico and Guthrie Volunteer Fire Department - Huston Station vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
36 Top 33% higher than 67% 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 20126 · Sissonville Millertown Pocatalico and Guthrie Volunteer Fire Department - Huston Station, WV 36 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 36
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #7,487
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ North Fond Du Lac…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: North Fond Du Lac Fire Department / North Fond Du Lac Emergency Medical Services, WI (+ 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 WV department.
- Sissonville Mille… (this dept) 36
- High Alpha Volunteer F…, NJ 36
- Near North Fond Du Lac…, WI 36
- Near Brandon Volunteer, WI 36
- Near Baugo Township, IN 36
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Charleston, WV
- County
- Kanawha County
- FDID
- 20126
Staffing vs the West Virginia average
How Sissonville Millertown Pocatalico and Guthrie Volunteer Fire Department - Huston Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in West Virginia. In-state it ranks #91 of 359 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,487 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 55
- WV departments
- 511
County roster fringe
Sissonville Millertown Pocatalico and Guthrie Volunteer Fire Department - Huston Station is 3.8% of Kanawha County roster mass
The county lists 39 departments totaling 957 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 77% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
8.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 36 roster).
Photo-finish peer: North Fond Du Lac Fire Department / North Fond Du Lac Emergency Medical Services, WI (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 36 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every WV department.