Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderUnion Township Volunteer Fire and Rescue
Wheeler, IN · Porter County. Union Township Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 44 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.
- 44
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Union Township Volunteer Fire and Rescue pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Indiana average.
- Top 23%
- national personnel size
- +91%
- vs. Indiana average
- 2
- 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.
Union Township Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Wheeler, IN (Porter County), with 2 stations and 44 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,216 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,216 of 22,440
- IN personnel rank #96 of 589
- 4.55 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 19 other listed departments in Porter County
Union Township Volunteer Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
44 Top 23% higher than 77% 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 64015 · Union Township Volunteer Fire and Rescue, IN 44 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 44
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,216
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ East Troy Emergen…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: East Troy Emergency 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 IN department.
- Union Township Vo… (this dept) 44
- High Wolbach Volunteer…, NE 44
- Near East Troy Emergen…, WI 44
- Near Bloomfield Genoa…, WI 44
- Near Lloydsville Volun…, PA 44
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Wheeler, IN
- County
- Porter County
- FDID
- 64015
Staffing vs the Indiana average
How Union Township Volunteer Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Indiana. In-state it ranks #96 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,216 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 94
- IN departments
- 969
County roster fringe
Union Township Volunteer Fire and Rescue is 6.9% of Porter County roster mass
The county lists 23 departments totaling 640 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 61% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.55 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 44 roster).
Photo-finish peer: East Troy Emergency Services, WI (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 44 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IN department.