Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Centerville-Osterville-Marstons Mills Fire District

Centerville, MA · Barnstable County. Centerville-Osterville-Marstons Mills Fire District is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 54 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.

54
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Centerville-Osterville-Marstons Mills Fire District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Massachusetts average.

Top 15%
national personnel size
+54%
vs. Massachusetts average
3
stations

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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
32/100
Centerville-Osterville-Marstons Mills Fire District

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 D
18 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
54 personnel · 3 stations

Centerville-Osterville-Marstons Mills Fire District is a Career (Paid) department serving Centerville, MA (Barnstable County), with 3 stations and 54 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,321 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #3,321 of 22,440
  • MA personnel rank #98 of 326
  • 5.56 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 26 other listed departments in Barnstable County

Centerville-Osterville-Marstons Mills Fire District vs. the national personnel distribution

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

54 Top 15% higher than 85% 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 01920 · Centerville-Osterville-Marstons Mills Fire District, MA 54 personnel · 3 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 54
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #3,321
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ A E Crandall Hook…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: A E Crandall Hook and Ladder Company Incorporated / Alfred Fire Department and Ambulance, NY (+ 0 personnel)

Career/paid 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 MA department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Centerville, MA
FDID
01920

Staffing vs the Massachusetts average

How Centerville-Osterville-Marstons Mills Fire District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Massachusetts. In-state it ranks #98 of 326 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,321 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 54% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
51
MA departments
568

County roster fringe

Centerville-Osterville-Marstons Mills Fire District is 7.0% of Barnstable County roster mass

The county lists 30 departments totaling 774 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 90% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

5.56 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 54 roster).

Photo-finish peer: A E Crandall Hook and Ladder Company Incorporated / Alfred Fire Department and Ambulance, NY (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide career peers near 54 personnel

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