Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderBelgrade Volunteer Fire Department - Depot Station
Belgrade, ME · Kennebec County. Belgrade Volunteer Fire Department - Depot Station is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 60 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.
- 60
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Belgrade Volunteer Fire Department - Depot Station pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Maine average.
- Top 11%
- national personnel size
- +186%
- vs. Maine average
- 3
- 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.
Belgrade Volunteer Fire Department - Depot Station is a Volunteer department serving Belgrade, ME (Kennebec County), with 3 stations and 60 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,556 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,556 of 22,440
- ME personnel rank #26 of 290
- 5.00 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 33 other listed departments in Kennebec County
Belgrade Volunteer Fire Department - Depot Station vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
60 Top 11% higher than 89% 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 F1280 · Belgrade Volunteer Fire Department - Depot Station, ME 60 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 60
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,556
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Atkinson Fire Pro…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Atkinson Fire Protection District, IL (+ 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.
- Belgrade Voluntee… (this dept) 60
- High Dickinson Volunte…, TX 60
- Near Atkinson Fire Pro…, IL 60
- Near Bridge City Volun…, TX 60
- Near Comanche County F…, KS 60
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Belgrade, ME
- County
- Kennebec County
- FDID
- F1280
Staffing vs the Maine average
How Belgrade Volunteer Fire Department - Depot Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maine. In-state it ranks #26 of 290 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,556 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 20
- ME departments
- 497
County roster fringe
Belgrade Volunteer Fire Department - Depot Station is 8.1% of Kennebec County roster mass
The county lists 40 departments totaling 744 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 35% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 60 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Atkinson Fire Protection District, IL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 60 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every ME department.