Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Bowers Fire Company Incorporated

Frederica, DE · Kent County. Bowers Fire Company Incorporated is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 50 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.

50
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Bowers Fire Company Incorporated pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount below the Delaware average.

Top 17%
national personnel size
-23%
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
PlainFireData Composite Score
91/100
Bowers Fire Company Incorporated

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
50 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
50 personnel · 1 station

Bowers Fire Company Incorporated is a Volunteer department serving Frederica, DE (Kent County), with 1 station and 50 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,806 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #3,806 of 22,440
  • DE personnel rank #43 of 51
  • 2.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 15 other listed departments in Kent County

Bowers Fire Company Incorporated vs. the national personnel distribution

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

50 Top 17% higher than 83% 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 30040 · Bowers Fire Company Incorporated, DE 50 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 50
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #3,806
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Rices Landing Vol…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Rices Landing Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated and Ambulance Service, 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Frederica, DE
FDID
30040

Staffing vs the Delaware average

How Bowers Fire Company Incorporated's personnel count compares to the typical department in Delaware. In-state it ranks #43 of 51 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,806 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 23% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
11
DE departments
80

County roster fringe

Bowers Fire Company Incorporated is 3.8% of Kent County roster mass

The county lists 20 departments totaling 1,321 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 65% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 50 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Rices Landing Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated and Ambulance Service, PA (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 50 personnel

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