Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Bethany Volunteer Firemans Association

Bethany, CT · New Haven County. Bethany Volunteer Firemans Association is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 80 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.

80
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Bethany Volunteer Firemans Association pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Connecticut average.

Top 6%
national personnel size
+100%
vs. Connecticut average
2
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
PlainFireData Composite Score
83/100
Bethany Volunteer Firemans Association

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
40 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
80 personnel · 2 stations

Bethany Volunteer Firemans Association is a Volunteer department serving Bethany, CT (New Haven County), with 2 stations and 80 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,451 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #1,451 of 22,440
  • CT personnel rank #48 of 203
  • 2.50 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 34 other listed departments in New Haven County

Bethany Volunteer Firemans Association vs. the national personnel distribution

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

80 Top 6% higher than 94% 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 06030 · Bethany Volunteer Firemans Association, CT 80 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-MID 80
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,451
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Carroll County
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Carroll County Fire Department, MD (+ 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 CT department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Bethany, CT
FDID
06030

Staffing vs the Connecticut average

How Bethany Volunteer Firemans Association's personnel count compares to the typical department in Connecticut. In-state it ranks #48 of 203 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,451 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 100% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
34
CT departments
418

County roster fringe

Bethany Volunteer Firemans Association is 2.3% of New Haven County roster mass

The county lists 59 departments totaling 3,458 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 61% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.50 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 80 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Carroll County Fire Department, MD (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 80 personnel

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