Department profile

Career (Paid)

Cumberland Fire District

Cumberland, RI · Providence County. Cumberland Fire District is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 30 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

30
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Not reported
EMS service

The verdict

Cumberland Fire District pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount below the Rhode Island average.

Top 45%
national personnel size
-21%
vs. Rhode Island average
1
station
$1,661,600
FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record

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
78/100
Cumberland 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 B
30 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 A
$55,387 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
30 personnel · 1 station

Cumberland Fire District is a Career (Paid) department serving Cumberland, RI (Providence County), with 1 station and 30 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #10,043 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,661,600.

  • National personnel rank #10,043 of 22,440
  • RI personnel rank #44 of 66
  • 3.33 stations per 100 personnel
  • 33 other listed departments in Providence County

Cumberland Fire District vs. the national personnel distribution

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

30 Top 45% higher than 55% 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 00802 · Cumberland Fire District, RI 30 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-UNK · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 30
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-UNK EMS pending
  • RANK-MID #10,043
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Dallas-Selfville…
  • FEMA-MID $1.7M
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Dallas-Selfville Volunteer Fire Department, AL (+ 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 RI department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY CAREER
Location
Cumberland, RI
FDID
00802

FEMA Grant History

$1.7M
Cumulative funding (FY2017–2024)
5
Awards
Year Award Amount
2024 EMW-2024-FG-02206 $167,013.36
2021 EMW-2021-FG-01911 $547,054.54
2021 EMW-2021-FG-03800 $452,918.18
2019 EMW-2019-FG-02623 $205,617
2017 EMW-2017-FH-00083 $288,997.07

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the Rhode Island average

How Cumberland Fire District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Rhode Island. In-state it ranks #44 of 66 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #10,043 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 21% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
9
RI departments
111

County roster fringe

Cumberland Fire District is 1.3% of Providence County roster mass

The county lists 46 departments totaling 2,266 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 61% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 30 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Dallas-Selfville Volunteer Fire Department, AL (+0 personnel).

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Chepachet · volunteer
Chopmist Hill Fire Department
Scituate · volunteer
Cranston Fire Department
Cranston · career
Cumberland Hill Fire Department
Cumberland · career
East Providence Fire Department
East Providence · career
Foster Center Fire Department
Foster · volunteer
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Nationwide career peers near 30 personnel

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