Department profile

Volunteer

Blue Hill Volunteer Fire Department

Blue Hill, ME · Hancock County. Blue Hill Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 45 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

45
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Not reported
EMS service

The verdict

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

Top 21%
national personnel size
+114%
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
89/100
Blue Hill Volunteer 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
45 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
45 personnel · 1 station

Blue Hill Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Blue Hill, ME (Hancock County), with 1 station and 45 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,730 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #4,730 of 22,440
  • ME personnel rank #55 of 290
  • 2.22 stations per 100 personnel
  • 39 other listed departments in Hancock County

Blue Hill Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

45 Top 21% higher than 79% 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 E1370 · Blue Hill Volunteer Fire Department, ME 45 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-SMALL 45
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-UNK EMS pending
  • RANK-UPPER #4,730
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Beach Park
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Beach Park Fire Department, 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Blue Hill, ME
FDID
E1370

Staffing vs the Maine average

How Blue Hill Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maine. In-state it ranks #55 of 290 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,730 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 114% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
20
ME departments
497

County roster fringe

Blue Hill Volunteer Fire Department is 6.1% of Hancock County roster mass

The county lists 44 departments totaling 740 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 27% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.22 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 45 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Beach Park Fire Department, IL (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 45 personnel

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