Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderChristiana Fire Company Ambulance
Bear, DE · New Castle County. Christiana Fire Company Ambulance is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 142 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.
- 142
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Christiana Fire Company Ambulance pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Delaware average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +118%
- vs. Delaware 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.
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.
Christiana Fire Company Ambulance is a Volunteer department serving Bear, DE (New Castle County), with 3 stations and 142 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #466 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #466 of 22,440
- DE personnel rank #5 of 51
- 2.11 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 23 other listed departments in New Castle County
Christiana Fire Company Ambulance vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
142 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 20012 · Christiana Fire Company Ambulance, DE 142 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 142
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #466
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Sellersburg Volun…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Sellersburg Volunteer Fire Department, IN (+ 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 DE department.
- Christiana Fire C… (this dept) 142
- High Cedar Rapids Fire…, IA 142
- Near Sellersburg Volun…, IN 142
- Near Winsted, CT 142
- Near Spring Valley Fir…, NY 142
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Bear, DE
- County
- New Castle County
- FDID
- 20012
Staffing vs the Delaware average
How Christiana Fire Company Ambulance's personnel count compares to the typical department in Delaware. In-state it ranks #5 of 51 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #466 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 11
- DE departments
- 80
County roster fringe
Christiana Fire Company Ambulance is 6.0% of New Castle County roster mass
The county lists 31 departments totaling 2,350 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 71% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.11 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 142 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Sellersburg Volunteer Fire Department, IN (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 142 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every DE department.