Department profile
VolunteerCarroll County Fire Department
Taneytown, MD · Carroll County. Carroll County Fire Department is a Volunteer department and 40 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 40
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Carroll County Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well below the Maryland average.
- Top 26%
- national personnel size
- -57%
- vs. Maryland average
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.
Carroll County Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Taneytown, MD (Carroll County) and 40 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,918 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,918 of 22,440
- MD personnel rank #141 of 179
- 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
40 Top 26% higher than 74% 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 06011 · Carroll County Fire Department, MD 40 personnel
PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 40
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #5,918
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bally Goodwill Fi…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Bally Goodwill Fire Company, PA (+ 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.
- Carroll County (this dept) 40
- High Owingsville, KY 40
- Near Bally Goodwill Fi…, PA 40
- Near Gilead Volunteer…, NC 40
- Near Newell Volunteer, NC 40
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Taneytown, MD
- County
- Carroll County
- FDID
- 06011
Staffing vs the Maryland average
How Carroll County Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maryland. In-state it ranks #141 of 179 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,918 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 67
- MD departments
- 379
County roster fringe
Carroll County Fire Department is 3.8% 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.
Photo-finish peer: Bally Goodwill Fire Company, PA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 40 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MD department.