West Virginia Fire Department Personnel

Personnel (fire department membership) numbers vary by region, by state and even by county. Recruiting is critical to fire department success, see National Volunteer Fire Council’s Make Me a Firefighter and National Volunteer Fire Council’s Recruiting Resources. Check out how your department’s numbers compare to those around you, to see how your recruitment and retention investments are fairing.

This information is based solely upon fire departments that have registered with the National Fire Service Registry. If you have not registered your fire department, please do so, it is free and contributes to a complete picture of the fire services. Check out some Quick Facts from the registry.

Department Type

NOTE: In the USFA National Fire Service Registry data for West Virginia there are 9 departments NOT classified, and so NOT included in these statistics. Departments should register as Career, Mostly Career, Volunteer or Mostly Volunteer but we do not have it for these 9 departments .

Volunteer Departments of West Virginia

Here are the average numbers of volunteer firefighters for each county within West Virginia, as well as the maximum and minimum numbers for that county.

County	# Volunteer Departments	Average Firefighters	Highest #	Lowest #
Barbour	3	28	30	25
Berkeley	5	44	62	35
Boone	8	25	35	20
Braxton	7	19	41	7
Brooke	10	25	32	17
Cabell	7	27	40	12
Calhoun	2	21	22	20
Clay	2	24	25	22
Doddridge	5	21	35	14
Fayette	13	27	54	17
Gilmer	1	38	–	–
Grant	4	24	35	15
Greenbrier	14	19	38	–
Hampshire	8	23	40	–
Hancock	5	24	37	17
Hardy	2	27	30	23
Harrison	14	24	47	7
Jackson	4	33	44	25
Jefferson	5	40	60	30
Kanawha	22	26	48	12
Lewis	6	24	43	10
Lincoln	5	25	33	20
Logan	8	26	38	17
Marion	12	27	46	15
Marshall	11	24	40	10
Mason	6	24	32	19
McDowell	12	18	24	8
Mercer	9	18	24	10
Mineral	11	28	40	17
Mingo	10	27	47	10
Monongalia	11	27	45	12
Monroe	4	24	28	20
Morgan	3	33	40	29
Nicholas	6	26	31	18
Ohio	7	21	43	15
Pendleton	5	23	31	15
Pleasants	2	25	30	20
Pocahontas	5	25	37	15
Preston	12	22	32	10
Putnam	8	27	45	16
Raleigh	10	22	36	–
Randolph	10	24	35	15
Ritchie	5	22	32	16
Roane	5	28	46	20
Summers	6	20	25	12
Taylor	2	25	26	24
Tucker	4	19	40	–
Tyler	4	23	40	15
Upshur	5	24	35	15
Wayne	7	24	50	11
Webster	5	28	45	18
Wetzel	9	19	36	10
Wood	10	27	35	19
Wyoming	7	23	32	15

Career Departments of West Virginia

Here are the average numbers of career firefighters for each county within West Virginia, as well as the maximum and minimum numbers for that county.

County	# Career Departments	Average Firefighters	Highest #	Lowest #
Berkeley	2	34	37	30
Cabell	1	103	–	–
Hancock	1	24	–	–
Harrison	1	42	–	–
Kanawha	5	58	171	21
Marion	1	41	–	–
Marshall	1	5	–	–
Mercer	2	22	23	20
Monongalia	1	61	–	–
Ohio	1	95	–	–
Raleigh	1	42	–	–
Wood	1	57	–	–

Department Types of West Virginia

Here are the department types by county for volunteer and career agencies in for West Virginia.

Looking for NFIRS FDIDs?

Here are the fire department identifiers (FDIDs) for agencies within West Virginia. NFIRS FDIDs are required for submitting NFIRS reports with mutual aid or automatic aid with those departments.

Need more NFIRS help?

Here are some useful ressources to learn more about NFIRS.

NFIRS Codes Cheat Sheet – NFIRS Coding – NFIRS Examples – FDIDs – POCs – NFIRS Transactions – NFIRS Modules – NFIRS Elements – NFIRS Rules – NFIRS Reference – NFIRS Compliant ?

You can also read this NFIRS 5.0 Complete Reference Guide, and NFIRS 5.0 Design documentation in order to have a deeper understanding of NFIRS 5.0. Here are also NFIRS 5.0 Forms ready for you to download and use.

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