Department profile
VolunteerWelling 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.
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.
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.
- Welling Tri Commu… (this dept) 20
- High Alachua County Fi…, FL 20
- Near Dunbar Volunteer, NE 20
- Near Princeton Junction, NJ 20
- Near Junction City Vol…, KY 20
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Welling, OK
- County
- Cherokee County
- 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.
- 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).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 20 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OK department.