Department profile
VolunteerWestside Rural Fire Protection District
Hood River, OR · Hood River County. Westside Rural Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 56 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 56
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Westside Rural Fire Protection District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Oregon average.
- Top 14%
- national personnel size
- +124%
- vs. Oregon 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.
Westside Rural Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department serving Hood River, OR (Hood River County), with 2 stations and 56 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,064 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,064 of 22,440
- OR personnel rank #34 of 237
- 3.57 stations per 100 personnel
- 6 other listed departments in Hood River County
Westside Rural Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
56 Top 14% higher than 86% 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 00408 · Westside Rural Fire Protection District, OR 56 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 56
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #3,064
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bremerton
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Bremerton Fire Department, WA (+ 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 OR department.
- Westside Rural Fi… (this dept) 56
- High Belleville, IL 56
- Near Bremerton, WA 56
- Near Longview, WA 56
- Near Addison, TX 56
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Hood River, OR
- County
- Hood River County
- FDID
- 00408
Staffing vs the Oregon average
How Westside Rural Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Oregon. In-state it ranks #34 of 237 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,064 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 42
- OR departments
- 465
County roster geometry
Hood River County HIFLD mix around Westside Rural Fire Protection District
Hood River County: 9 departments, 249 personnel (6 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 44% of departments. County / state rollup.
3.57 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 56 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Bremerton Fire Department, WA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 56 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OR department.