Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Carroll County Fire Department

Mount Airy, MD · Carroll County. Carroll County Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 104 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.

104
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Carroll County Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount in line with the Maryland average.

Top 4%
national personnel size
+13%
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
100/100
Carroll County Fire Department

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
104 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
104 personnel · 1 station

Carroll County Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Mount Airy, MD (Carroll County), with 1 station and 104 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #861 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #861 of 22,440
  • MD personnel rank #36 of 179
  • 0.96 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 11 other listed departments in Carroll County

Carroll County Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

104 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 06001 · Carroll County Fire Department, MD 104 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MID 104
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #861
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Gordon County
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Gordon County Fire Department, GA (+ 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
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Mount Airy, MD
FDID
06001

Staffing vs the Maryland average

How Carroll County Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maryland. In-state it ranks #36 of 179 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #861 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 13% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
67
MD departments
379

County roster fringe

Carroll County Fire Department is 9.9% of Carroll County roster mass

The county lists 14 departments totaling 1,050 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 93% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

0.96 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 104 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Gordon County Fire Department, GA (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 104 personnel

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