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.
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 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.
- Cumberland Fire D… (this dept) 30
- High Addison Volunteer, VT 30
- Near Dallas-Selfville…, AL 30
- Near Bladenboro, NC 30
- Near Monelison Volunte…, VA 30
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Cumberland, RI
- County
- Providence County
- FDID
- 00802
FEMA Grant History
| 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.
- 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).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 30 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every RI department.