Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Bath Fire Department

Bath, ME · Sagadahoc County. Bath Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 51 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.

51
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Bath Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Maine average.

Top 16%
national personnel size
+143%
vs. Maine 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
PlainFireData Composite Score
91/100
Bath Fire Department

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.

Staffing capacity A
51 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
51 personnel · 1 station

Bath Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Bath, ME (Sagadahoc County), with 1 station and 51 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,679 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #3,679 of 22,440
  • ME personnel rank #43 of 290
  • 1.96 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 10 other listed departments in Sagadahoc County

Bath Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

51 Top 16% higher than 84% 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 L0040 · Bath Fire Department, ME 51 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 51
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #3,679
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cuero
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Cuero Fire Department, TX (+ 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 ME department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Bath, ME
FDID
L0040

Staffing vs the Maine average

How Bath Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maine. In-state it ranks #43 of 290 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,679 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 143% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
20
ME departments
497

County roster geometry

Sagadahoc County HIFLD mix around Bath Fire Department

Sagadahoc County: 11 departments, 270 personnel (7 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 55% of departments. County / state rollup.

1.96 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 51 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Cuero Fire Department, TX (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

Nationwide volunteer peers near 51 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every ME department.