Department profile

Volunteer

Cumberland 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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
77/100
Cumberland Fire Department - Central Station

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 B
34.7 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
104 personnel · 3 stations

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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Cumberland, ME
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.

▲ 395% above the state average
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).

Nationwide volunteer peers near 104 personnel

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