Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Tunstall Volunteer Fire and Rescue

Dry Fork, VA · Pittsylvania County. Tunstall Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 51 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.

51
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Tunstall Volunteer Fire and Rescue pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Virginia average.

Top 17%
national personnel size
+55%
vs. Virginia 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
PlainFireData Composite Score
91/100
Tunstall Volunteer Fire and Rescue

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 A
51 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
51 personnel · 1 station

Tunstall Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Dry Fork, VA (Pittsylvania County), with 1 station and 51 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,770 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #3,770 of 22,440
  • VA personnel rank #109 of 414
  • 1.96 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 23 other listed departments in Pittsylvania County

Tunstall Volunteer Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

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

51 Top 17% higher than 83% 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 14305 · Tunstall Volunteer Fire and Rescue, VA 51 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MID 51
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #3,770
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Ellicott Creek Vo…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Ellicott Creek Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated, NY (+ 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 VA department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Dry Fork, VA
FDID
14305

Staffing vs the Virginia average

How Tunstall Volunteer Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Virginia. In-state it ranks #109 of 414 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,770 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 55% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
86
VA departments
766

County roster fringe

Tunstall Volunteer Fire and Rescue is 5.9% of Pittsylvania County roster mass

The county lists 24 departments totaling 867 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 50% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

1.96 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 51 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Ellicott Creek Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated, NY (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 51 personnel

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