Department profile
VolunteerBrookline Fire Department
Brookline, NH · Hillsborough County. Brookline Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 33 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 33
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Brookline Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the New Hampshire average.
- Top 38%
- national personnel size
- +32%
- vs. New Hampshire 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.
Brookline Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Brookline, NH (Hillsborough County), with 1 station and 33 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,602 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #8,602 of 22,440
- NH personnel rank #91 of 203
- 3.03 stations per 100 personnel
- 32 other listed departments in Hillsborough County
Brookline Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
33 Top 38% higher than 62% 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 50580 · Brookline Fire Department, NH 33 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 33
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #8,602
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lawrenceburg
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Lawrenceburg Fire Department, TN (+ 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 NH department.
- Brookline (this dept) 33
- High Seneca Falls, NY 33
- Near Lawrenceburg, TN 33
- Near Parthenon Fire St…, AR 33
- Near Union Grove-Yorkv…, WI 33
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Brookline, NH
- County
- Hillsborough County
- FDID
- 50580
Staffing vs the New Hampshire average
How Brookline Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Hampshire. In-state it ranks #91 of 203 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,602 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 10
- NH departments
- 293
County roster fringe
Brookline Fire Department is 2.4% of Hillsborough County roster mass
The county lists 38 departments totaling 1,366 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 97% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.03 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 33 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Lawrenceburg Fire Department, TN (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 33 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NH department.