Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderVan Buren Township Fire Department
Bloomington, IN · Monroe County. Van Buren Township Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 39 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.
- 39
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Van Buren Township Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Indiana average.
- Top 30%
- national personnel size
- +70%
- 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.
Van Buren Township Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Bloomington, IN (Monroe County), with 2 stations and 39 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #6,628 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #6,628 of 22,440
- IN personnel rank #118 of 589
- 5.13 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 7 other listed departments in Monroe County
Van Buren Township Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
39 Top 30% higher than 70% 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 53008 · Van Buren Township Fire Department, IN 39 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 39
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #6,628
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Edgerton Area Fir…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Edgerton Area Fire District, 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.
- Van Buren Township (this dept) 39
- High Baraboo, WI 39
- Near Edgerton Area Fir…, WI 39
- Near Painted Post Volu…, NY 39
- Near Cohocton Volunteer, NY 39
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Bloomington, IN
- County
- Monroe County
- FDID
- 53008
Staffing vs the Indiana average
How Van Buren Township Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Indiana. In-state it ranks #118 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #6,628 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
Van Buren Township Fire Department is 8.5% of Monroe County roster mass
The county lists 14 departments totaling 460 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 93% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.13 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 39 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Edgerton Area Fire District, WI (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 39 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IN department.