Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderBroad Channel Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance Corps Incorporated
Broad Channel, NY · Queens County. Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance Corps Incorporated is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 63 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.
- 63
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance Corps Incorporated pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount well above the New York average.
- Top 10%
- national personnel size
- +50%
- 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.
Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance Corps Incorporated is a Volunteer department serving Broad Channel, NY (Queens County), with 1 station and 63 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,351 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,351 of 22,440
- NY personnel rank #391 of 1,368
- 1.59 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 3 other listed departments in Queens County
Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance Corps Incorporated vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
63 Top 10% higher than 90% 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 NY-BROAD-CHANNEL-VOLUNTEER-FIRE-DEPARTMENT-AND-AMBULA-NY · Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance Corps Incorporated, NY 63 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MID 63
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,351
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bloomingdale Fire…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Bloomingdale Fire Protection District, 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 NY department.
- Broad Channel Vol… (this dept) 63
- High Hebron-Alden-Gree…, IL 63
- Near Bloomingdale Fire…, IL 63
- Near Danville, IL 63
- Near Franklin Park, IL 63
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Broad Channel, NY
- County
- Queens County
Staffing vs the New York average
How Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance Corps Incorporated's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #391 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,351 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 weight
Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance Corps Incorporated carries 48.1% of Queens County HIFLD personnel
Among 4 listed departments (131 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 50% of the county count. County / state rollup.
1.59 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 63 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Bloomingdale Fire Protection District, IL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 63 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NY department.