Department profile
VolunteerBradford Volunteer Fire Department
Westerly, RI · Washington County. Bradford Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 57 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 57
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Bradford Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Rhode Island average.
- Top 13%
- national personnel size
- +50%
- vs. Rhode Island average
- 2
- 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.
Bradford Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Westerly, RI (Washington County), with 2 stations and 57 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,878 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,878 of 22,440
- RI personnel rank #19 of 66
- 3.51 stations per 100 personnel
- 25 other listed departments in Washington County
Bradford Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
57 Top 13% higher than 87% 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 03601 · Bradford Volunteer Fire Department, RI 57 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MID 57
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-UPPER #2,878
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Pacific Fire Prot…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Pacific Fire Protection District, MO (+ 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 RI department.
- Bradford Volunteer (this dept) 57
- High Black Forest Fire…, CO 57
- Near Pacific Fire Prot…, MO 57
- Near Medford Division…, NJ 57
- Near Dunedin Fire Resc…, FL 57
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Westerly, RI
- County
- Washington County
- FDID
- 03601
Staffing vs the Rhode Island average
How Bradford Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Rhode Island. In-state it ranks #19 of 66 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,878 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 9
- RI departments
- 111
County roster fringe
Bradford Volunteer Fire Department is 7.5% of Washington County roster mass
The county lists 31 departments totaling 764 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 26% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.51 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 57 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Pacific Fire Protection District, MO (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 57 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every RI department.