Department profile
VolunteerCumberland Fire Department - Central Station
Cumberland, ME · Cumberland County. Cumberland Fire Department - Central Station is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 104 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 104
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Cumberland Fire Department - Central Station pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Maine average.
- Top 4%
- national personnel size
- +395%
- vs. Maine 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.
Cumberland Fire Department - Central Station is a Volunteer department serving Cumberland, ME (Cumberland County), with 3 stations and 104 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #865 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #865 of 22,440
- ME personnel rank #6 of 290
- 2.88 stations per 100 personnel
- 46 other listed departments in Cumberland County
Cumberland Fire Department - Central Station 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 C1970 · Cumberland Fire Department - Central Station, ME 104 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MID 104
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-TOP #865
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Newport
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Newport Fire Department, RI (+ 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 ME department.
- Cumberland Fire D… (this dept) 104
- High Gordon County, GA 104
- Near Newport, RI 104
- Near Flagstaff, AZ 104
- Near Carroll County, MD 104
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Cumberland, ME
- County
- Cumberland County
- FDID
- C1970
Staffing vs the Maine average
How Cumberland Fire Department - Central Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maine. In-state it ranks #6 of 290 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #865 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 20
- ME departments
- 497
County roster fringe
Cumberland Fire Department - Central Station is 5.5% of Cumberland County roster mass
The county lists 59 departments totaling 1,886 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 58% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.88 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 104 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Newport Fire Department, RI (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 104 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every ME department.