Department profile
VolunteerBlades Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated
Blades, DE · Sussex County. Blades Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 60 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 60
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Blades Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount in line with the Delaware average.
- Top 11%
- national personnel size
- -8%
- vs. Delaware 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 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.
Blades Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated is a Volunteer department serving Blades, DE (Sussex County), with 1 station and 60 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,559 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,559 of 22,440
- DE personnel rank #36 of 51
- 1.67 stations per 100 personnel
- 26 other listed departments in Sussex County
Blades Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated 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 40071 · Blades Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated, DE 60 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 60
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #2,559
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Nanticoke Fire De…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Nanticoke Fire Department Pioneer Hook and Ladder Volunteer Fire Company, PA (+ 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 DE department.
- Blades Volunteer… (this dept) 60
- High Ripon Consolidate…, CA 60
- Near Nanticoke Fire De…, PA 60
- Near Harwood Fire Comp…, PA 60
- Near Patterson Fire De…, NY 60
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Blades, DE
- County
- Sussex County
- FDID
- 40071
Staffing vs the Delaware average
How Blades Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated's personnel count compares to the typical department in Delaware. In-state it ranks #36 of 51 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,559 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 11
- DE departments
- 80
County roster fringe
Blades Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated is 3.9% of Sussex County roster mass
The county lists 29 departments totaling 1,544 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 66% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
1.67 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 60 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Nanticoke Fire Department Pioneer Hook and Ladder Volunteer Fire Company, PA (+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 DE department.