Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderWaverly Volunteer Fire Company
Waverly, WV · Wood County. Waverly Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 22 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.
- 22
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Waverly Volunteer Fire Company pairs modest national personnel with a headcount in line with the West Virginia average.
- 28th pct.
- national personnel size
- -4%
- vs. West 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 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.
Waverly Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Waverly, WV (Wood County), with 1 station and 22 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #16,063 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #16,063 of 22,440
- WV personnel rank #280 of 359
- 4.55 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 14 other listed departments in Wood County
Waverly Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
22 Top 72% higher than 28% 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 54109 · Waverly Volunteer Fire Company, WV 22 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 22
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #16,063
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Citizens Fire Com…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Citizens Fire Company - Brandonville, PA (+ 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.
- Waverly Volunteer… (this dept) 22
- High Ripley Township V…, IN 22
- Near Citizens Fire Com…, PA 22
- Near Coldwater, OH 22
- Near Waveland Voluntee…, IN 22
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Waverly, WV
- County
- Wood County
- FDID
- 54109
Staffing vs the West Virginia average
How Waverly Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in West Virginia. In-state it ranks #280 of 359 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #16,063 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 55
- WV departments
- 511
County roster fringe
Waverly Volunteer Fire Company is 5.3% of Wood County roster mass
The county lists 15 departments totaling 414 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 73% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.55 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 22 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Citizens Fire Company - Brandonville, PA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 22 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every WV department.