Department profile

Volunteer

Welling Tri Community Fire Department

Welling, OK · Cherokee County. Welling Tri Community Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 20 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

20
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Welling Tri Community Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well above the Oklahoma average.

21st pct.
national personnel size
+67%
vs. Oklahoma average
3
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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
6/100
Welling Tri Community 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 F
6.7 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
20 personnel · 3 stations

Welling Tri Community Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Welling, OK (Cherokee County), with 3 stations and 20 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #17,793 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #17,793 of 22,440
  • OK personnel rank #217 of 513
  • 15.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • 16 other listed departments in Cherokee County

Welling Tri Community Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

20 Top 79% higher than 21% 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 11015 · Welling Tri Community Fire Department, OK 20 personnel · 3 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 20
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-LOWER #17,793
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Dunbar Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Dunbar Volunteer Fire Department, NE (+ 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 OK department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Welling, OK
FDID
11015

Staffing vs the Oklahoma average

How Welling Tri Community Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Oklahoma. In-state it ranks #217 of 513 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #17,793 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 67% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
68
OK departments
1,049

County roster fringe

Welling Tri Community Fire Department is 9.5% of Cherokee County roster mass

The county lists 20 departments totaling 210 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 45% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

15.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 20 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Dunbar Volunteer Fire Department, NE (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 20 personnel

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