Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Candlewood Company Incorporated

Brookfield, CT · Fairfield County. Candlewood Company Incorporated is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 30 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.

30
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Candlewood Company Incorporated pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount below the Connecticut average.

Top 44%
national personnel size
-25%
vs. Connecticut 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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
67/100
Candlewood Company Incorporated

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 B
30 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
30 personnel · 1 station

Candlewood Company Incorporated is a Volunteer department serving Brookfield, CT (Fairfield County), with 1 station and 30 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #9,952 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #9,952 of 22,440
  • CT personnel rank #178 of 203
  • 3.33 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 47 other listed departments in Fairfield County

Candlewood Company Incorporated vs. the national personnel distribution

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

30 Top 44% higher than 56% 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 05030 · Candlewood Company Incorporated, CT 30 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 30
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #9,952
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lyndon
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Lyndon Fire Department, NY (+ 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 CT department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Brookfield, CT
FDID
05030

Staffing vs the Connecticut average

How Candlewood Company Incorporated's personnel count compares to the typical department in Connecticut. In-state it ranks #178 of 203 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,952 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 25% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
34
CT departments
418

County roster fringe

Candlewood Company Incorporated is 1.0% of Fairfield County roster mass

The county lists 82 departments totaling 2,960 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 87% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 30 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Lyndon Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 30 personnel

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