Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderBourne Fire Rescue and Emergency Services Department
Buzzards Bay, MA · Barnstable County. Bourne Fire Rescue and Emergency Services Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 53 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.
- 53
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Bourne Fire Rescue and Emergency Services Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Massachusetts average.
- Top 15%
- national personnel size
- +51%
- vs. Massachusetts average
- 4
- 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 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.
Bourne Fire Rescue and Emergency Services Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Buzzards Bay, MA (Barnstable County), with 4 stations and 53 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,415 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,415 of 22,440
- MA personnel rank #99 of 326
- 7.55 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 26 other listed departments in Barnstable County
Bourne Fire Rescue and Emergency Services Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
53 Top 15% higher than 85% 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 01036 · Bourne Fire Rescue and Emergency Services Department, MA 53 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 53
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #3,415
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ LA Pine Rural Fir…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: LA Pine Rural Fire Protection District, OR (+ 0 personnel)
Career/paid 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 MA department.
- Bourne Fire Rescu… (this dept) 53
- High Canaseraga Fire a…, NY 53
- Near LA Pine Rural Fir…, OR 53
- Near Bennett Fire Resc…, CO 53
- Near Saint Marys, GA 53
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Buzzards Bay, MA
- County
- Barnstable County
- FDID
- 01036
Staffing vs the Massachusetts average
How Bourne Fire Rescue and Emergency Services Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Massachusetts. In-state it ranks #99 of 326 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,415 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 51
- MA departments
- 568
County roster fringe
Bourne Fire Rescue and Emergency Services Department is 6.8% of Barnstable County roster mass
The county lists 30 departments totaling 774 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 90% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
7.55 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 53 roster).
Photo-finish peer: LA Pine Rural Fire Protection District, OR (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 53 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MA department.