Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderBoght Community Fire District
Cohoes, NY · Albany County. Boght Community Fire District is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 47 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.
- 47
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Boght Community Fire District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount in line with the New York average.
- Top 20%
- national personnel size
- +12%
- vs. New York 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.
Boght Community Fire District is a Volunteer department serving Cohoes, NY (Albany County), with 1 station and 47 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,395 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,395 of 22,440
- NY personnel rank #702 of 1,368
- 2.13 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 43 other listed departments in Albany County
Boght Community Fire District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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 01004 · Boght Community Fire District, NY 47 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 47
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,395
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bald Head Island…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Bald Head Island Volunteer Fire and Rescue, NC (+ 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.
- Boght Community F… (this dept) 47
- High Lanett Fire and E…, AL 47
- Near Bald Head Island…, NC 47
- Near Jupiter Volunteer…, NC 47
- Near Northfield, NJ 47
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Cohoes, NY
- County
- Albany County
- FDID
- 01004
Staffing vs the New York average
How Boght Community Fire District's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #702 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,395 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 150
- NY departments
- 2,253
County roster fringe
Boght Community Fire District is 2.2% of Albany County roster mass
The county lists 57 departments totaling 2,169 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 77% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.13 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 47 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Bald Head Island Volunteer Fire and Rescue, NC (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 47 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NY department.