Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderBurlington Fire Department
Burlington, VT · Chittenden County. Burlington Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 75 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.
- 75
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Burlington Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Vermont average.
- Top 7%
- national personnel size
- +341%
- vs. Vermont average
- 5
- stations
- $838,095
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Burlington Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Burlington, VT (Chittenden County), with 5 stations and 75 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,649 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $838,095.
- National personnel rank #1,649 of 22,440
- VT personnel rank #2 of 150
- 6.67 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 17 other listed departments in Chittenden County
Burlington Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
75 Top 7% higher than 93% 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 04114 · Burlington Fire Department, VT 75 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 75
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,649
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Frenchtown Rural…
- FEMA-MID $838K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Frenchtown Rural Fire District, MT (+ 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 VT department.
- Burlington (this dept) 75
- High Liberty Road Volu…, MD 75
- Near Frenchtown Rural…, MT 75
- Near Florence Township, NJ 75
- Near Jacksonville Volu…, MD 75
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Burlington, VT
- County
- Chittenden County
- FDID
- 04114
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | EMW-2023-FG-06383 | $201,872.72 |
| 2020 | EMW-2020-FG-16755 | $193,100.91 |
| 2018 | EMW-2018-FO-01959 | $162,273 |
| 2014 | EMW2013FO03000 | $280,848 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Vermont average
How Burlington Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Vermont. In-state it ranks #2 of 150 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,649 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 11
- VT departments
- 250
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Chittenden County
County mix is mostly volunteer (9 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
6.67 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 75 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Frenchtown Rural Fire District, MT (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 75 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every VT department.