Department profile

Volunteer

Butler Volunteer Fire Company

Butler, MD · Baltimore County. Butler Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 43 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

43
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Butler Volunteer Fire Company pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well below the Maryland average.

Top 23%
national personnel size
-53%
vs. Maryland 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
87/100
Butler Volunteer Fire Company

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
43 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
43 personnel · 1 station

Butler Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Butler, MD (Baltimore County), with 1 station and 43 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,250 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #5,250 of 22,440
  • MD personnel rank #138 of 179
  • 2.33 stations per 100 personnel
  • 32 other listed departments in Baltimore County

Butler Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

43 Top 23% higher than 77% 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 03149 · Butler Volunteer Fire Company, MD 43 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 43
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #5,250
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Sheffield
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Sheffield Fire Department, MA (+ 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 MD department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Butler, MD
FDID
03149

Staffing vs the Maryland average

How Butler Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maryland. In-state it ranks #138 of 179 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,250 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 53% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
67
MD departments
379

County roster fringe

Butler Volunteer Fire Company is 0.5% of Baltimore County roster mass

The county lists 35 departments totaling 8,161 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 57% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 43 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Sheffield Fire Department, MA (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 43 personnel

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