Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Tippecanoe Township Volunteer Fire Department

Battle Ground, IN · Tippecanoe County. Tippecanoe Township Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 34 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.

34
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Tippecanoe Township Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Indiana average.

Top 38%
national personnel size
+48%
vs. Indiana 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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
76/100
Tippecanoe Township 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 B
34 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
34 personnel · 1 station

Tippecanoe Township Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Battle Ground, IN (Tippecanoe County), with 1 station and 34 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,522 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #8,522 of 22,440
  • IN personnel rank #173 of 589
  • 2.94 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 12 other listed departments in Tippecanoe County

Tippecanoe Township Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

34 Top 38% higher than 62% 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 79011 · Tippecanoe Township Volunteer Fire Department, IN 34 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 34
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #8,522
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Kellogg
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Kellogg Fire Department, MN (+ 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 IN department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Battle Ground, IN
FDID
79011

Staffing vs the Indiana average

How Tippecanoe Township Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Indiana. In-state it ranks #173 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,522 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 48% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
94
IN departments
969

County roster fringe

Tippecanoe Township Volunteer Fire Department is 7.2% of Tippecanoe County roster mass

The county lists 16 departments totaling 470 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 100% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.94 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 34 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Kellogg Fire Department, MN (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 34 personnel

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