Department profile
VolunteerCamden Fire Department
Camden, ME · Knox County. Camden Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 45 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 45
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Camden Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Maine average.
- Top 21%
- national personnel size
- +114%
- vs. Maine 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.
Camden Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Camden, ME (Knox County), with 1 station and 45 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,746 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,746 of 22,440
- ME personnel rank #56 of 290
- 2.22 stations per 100 personnel
- 15 other listed departments in Knox County
Camden Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
45 Top 21% higher than 79% 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 G1630 · Camden Fire Department, ME 45 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 45
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-UPPER #4,746
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Beach Park
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Beach Park Fire Department, 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 ME department.
- Camden (this dept) 45
- High Cherryvale, KS 45
- Near Beach Park, IL 45
- Near Bonner Springs, KS 45
- Near Cameron Volunteer, TX 45
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Camden, ME
- County
- Knox County
- FDID
- G1630
Staffing vs the Maine average
How Camden Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maine. In-state it ranks #56 of 290 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,746 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 20
- ME departments
- 497
County roster geometry
Knox County HIFLD mix around Camden Fire Department
Knox County: 18 departments, 405 personnel (13 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 22% of departments. County / state rollup.
2.22 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 45 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Beach Park Fire Department, IL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 45 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every ME department.