Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderWest Buncombe Volunteer Fire and Rescue / Buncombe County Emergency Medical Services
Asheville, NC · Buncombe County. West Buncombe Volunteer Fire and Rescue / Buncombe County Emergency Medical Services is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 50 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.
- 50
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
West Buncombe Volunteer Fire and Rescue / Buncombe County Emergency Medical Services pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the North Carolina average.
- Top 18%
- national personnel size
- +92%
- vs. North Carolina 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.
West Buncombe Volunteer Fire and Rescue / Buncombe County Emergency Medical Services is a Volunteer department serving Asheville, NC (Buncombe County), with 1 station and 50 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,102 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,102 of 22,440
- NC personnel rank #159 of 932
- 2.00 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 20 other listed departments in Buncombe County
West Buncombe Volunteer Fire and Rescue / Buncombe County Emergency Medical Services vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
50 Top 18% higher than 82% 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 01121 · West Buncombe Volunteer Fire and Rescue / Buncombe County Emergency Medical Services, NC 50 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 50
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,102
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bayview Volunteer…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Bayview Volunteer Fire Company, NJ (+ 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 NC department.
- West Buncombe Vol… (this dept) 50
- High Flintstone Volunt…, MD 50
- Near Bayview Volunteer…, NJ 50
- Near Buchanan Valley V…, PA 50
- Near Medusa Volunteer, NY 50
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Asheville, NC
- County
- Buncombe County
- FDID
- 01121
Staffing vs the North Carolina average
How West Buncombe Volunteer Fire and Rescue / Buncombe County Emergency Medical Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #159 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,102 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 131
- NC departments
- 1,534
County roster fringe
West Buncombe Volunteer Fire and Rescue / Buncombe County Emergency Medical Services is 5.9% of Buncombe County roster mass
The county lists 29 departments totaling 852 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 93% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 50 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Bayview Volunteer Fire Company, NJ (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 50 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NC department.