Department profile
VolunteerBarre Fire Department
Barre, MA · Worcester County. Barre Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 47 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 47
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Barre Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Massachusetts average.
- Top 20%
- national personnel size
- +34%
- vs. Massachusetts average
- 2
- stations
- $705,619
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Barre Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Barre, MA (Worcester County), with 2 stations and 47 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,387 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $705,619.
- National personnel rank #4,387 of 22,440
- MA personnel rank #125 of 326
- 4.26 stations per 100 personnel
- 71 other listed departments in Worcester County
Barre Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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 27021 · Barre Fire Department, MA 47 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 47
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #4,387
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Newbury Fire/Emer…
- FEMA-MID $706K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Newbury Fire/Emergency Medical Services Department, OH (+ 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 MA department.
- Barre (this dept) 47
- High Burton Volunteer…, OH 47
- Near Newbury Fire/Emer…, OH 47
- Near Helenville Volunt…, WI 47
- Near Jefferson, WI 47
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Barre, MA
- County
- Worcester County
- FDID
- 27021
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FG-06073 | $476,190.47 |
| 2016 | EMW2015FO02230 | $229,429 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Massachusetts average
How Barre Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Massachusetts. In-state it ranks #125 of 326 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,387 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 51
- MA departments
- 568
County roster fringe
Barre Fire Department is 1.7% of Worcester County roster mass
The county lists 94 departments totaling 2,783 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 64% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.26 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 47 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Newbury Fire/Emergency Medical Services Department, OH (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 47 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MA department.