Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderColumbia Volunteer Fire Department
Columbia, CT · Tolland County. Columbia Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 80 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.
- 80
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Columbia Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Connecticut average.
- Top 7%
- national personnel size
- +100%
- 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.
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.
Columbia Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Columbia, CT (Tolland County), with 1 station and 80 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,463 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,463 of 22,440
- CT personnel rank #49 of 203
- 1.25 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 20 other listed departments in Tolland County
Columbia Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
80 Top 7% higher than 93% 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 03030 · Columbia Volunteer Fire Department, CT 80 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 80
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,463
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ North Arlington
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: North Arlington Fire Department, NJ (+ 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.
- Columbia Volunteer (this dept) 80
- High Chepachet, RI 80
- Near North Arlington, NJ 80
- Near Missoula Rural Fi…, MT 80
- Near Endwell, NY 80
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Columbia, CT
- County
- Tolland County
- FDID
- 03030
Staffing vs the Connecticut average
How Columbia Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Connecticut. In-state it ranks #49 of 203 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,463 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 34
- CT departments
- 418
County roster fringe
Columbia Volunteer Fire Department is 8.2% of Tolland County roster mass
The county lists 27 departments totaling 973 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 89% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
1.25 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 80 roster).
Photo-finish peer: North Arlington Fire Department, NJ (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 80 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CT department.