Department profile
VolunteerBerlin Volunteer Fire Department
Berlin, NY · Rensselaer County. Berlin Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department and 43 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 43
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Berlin Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount in line with the New York average.
- Top 23%
- national personnel size
- +2%
- vs. New York average
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.
Berlin Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Berlin, NY (Rensselaer County) and 43 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,243 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,243 of 22,440
- NY personnel rank #813 of 1,368
- 42 other listed departments in Rensselaer County
Berlin Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
43 Top 23% higher than 77% 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 42002 · Berlin Volunteer Fire Department, NY 43 personnel
PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 43
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Foster City
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Foster City Fire Department, CA (+ 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 NY department.
- Berlin Volunteer (this dept) 43
- High Hales Corners, WI 43
- Near Foster City, CA 43
- Near Syracuse, IN 43
- Near Ponderosa Volunte…, NM 43
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Berlin, NY
- County
- Rensselaer County
- FDID
- 42002
Staffing vs the New York average
How Berlin Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #813 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,243 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 150
- NY departments
- 2,253
County roster fringe
Berlin Volunteer Fire Department is 2.3% of Rensselaer County roster mass
The county lists 51 departments totaling 1,899 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 71% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Foster City Fire Department, CA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 43 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NY department.