We are extremely proud to announce that the Four Oaks Fire Department has been certified as an Agricultural Rescue Provider. We would like to thank all of the dedicated firefighters who put in countless hours of training over the last 12 months to make this happen. We also appreciate instructor Gene Matthis for taking the time to conduct all of our Agricultural Rescue classes.
We are extremely proud to announce that the Johnston Now magazine awarded our very own Fire Chief Barry Stanley with the Outstanding Firefighter Honor at its July 2022 banquet. Congratulations to Barry on this well-deserved recognition.
Barry has unselfishly served the Four Oaks community for over 27 years. His 15 years of leadership as Chief has enabled us to continually improve the service level that we provide. We would like to thank Barry and his family for all they do for our department and community.
We are extremely proud to announce that the Four Oaks Fire Department has been certified as a Heavy Rescue provider and also obtained Swift Water Rescue and Surface Water Rescue certifications.
We would like to thank all of the dedicated firefighters who put in countless hours of training over the last 20 months to make this happen. We also appreciated Trey Smith for taking the time to conduct all of our water rescue and technical rescue training classes.
The ISO (Insurance Services Office) Fire Score is a rating that determines how well the fire department can protect your community and home. Insurance companies use the score to help set home insurance rates, as a home that is less likely to be severely damaged or destroyed by fire is cheaper to insure. However, the impact of our ISO score on your homeowners insurance policy varies by insurer. What’s more, ISO does not publicly release scores, so it’s not easy to look up your area’s score or how it’s impacting your insurance rates.
The Four Oaks Fire Department has worked diligently to improve its ISO Fire Insurance Rating from a 4/9E to a 3/9E.
What does this mean exactly?
A company called the ISO (Insurance Services Office) creates ratings for fire departments and their surrounding communities. The ratings calculate how well-equipped fire departments are to put out fires in that community. The ISO provides this score, often called the “ISO fire score,” to homeowners insurance companies. The insurers then use it to help set homeowners insurance rates. The more well-equipped your fire department is to put out a fire, the less likely your house is to burn down. And that makes your home less risky, and therefore less expensive, to insure.
An ISO fire insurance rating, also referred to as a fire score or Public Protection Classification (PPC), is a score from 1 to 10 that indicates how well-protected your community is by the fire department. In the ISO rating scale, a lower number is better: 1 is the best possible rating, while a 10 means the fire department did not meet the ISO’s minimum requirements.
According to the ISO’s Fire Suppression Rating Schedule (FSRS), there are four main criteria to a fire rating score:
Depending on your state, it’s possible to get a maximum score of around 106% on the survey, although any fire department that scores above 90% receives the highest ranking, a 1. Very few fire departments receive that ranking–only 0.71% of all communities surveyed have a 1. A rating of 5 is both the median and most common rating fire departments received. In general, urban areas tend to have better PPC scores than rural areas, as urban fire departments are closer together and often receive better funding.
