Department profile
VolunteerSmoot Volunteer Fire Department
Smoot, WV · Greenbrier County. Smoot Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department and 18 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 18
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Smoot Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the West Virginia average.
- 16th pct.
- national personnel size
- -22%
- vs. West Virginia average
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.
Smoot Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Smoot, WV (Greenbrier County) and 18 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #18,858 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #18,858 of 22,440
- WV personnel rank #325 of 359
- 13 other listed departments in Greenbrier County
Smoot Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
18 Top 84% higher than 16% 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 13195 · Smoot Volunteer Fire Department, WV 18 personnel
PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 18
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #18,858
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Grafton Firemens…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Grafton Firemens Association Incorporated, VT (+ 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.
- Smoot Volunteer (this dept) 18
- High Roosevelt, UT 18
- Near Grafton Firemens…, VT 18
- Near Bradley Beach Vol…, NJ 18
- Near Painted Rocks Fir…, MT 18
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Smoot, WV
- County
- Greenbrier County
- FDID
- 13195
Staffing vs the West Virginia average
How Smoot Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in West Virginia. In-state it ranks #325 of 359 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #18,858 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 55
- WV departments
- 511
County roster fringe
Smoot Volunteer Fire Department is 6.6% of Greenbrier County roster mass
The county lists 15 departments totaling 273 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 7% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Grafton Firemens Association Incorporated, VT (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 18 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every WV department.