Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Cundys Harbor Volunteer Fire Department

Harpswell, ME · Cumberland County. Cundys Harbor Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 18 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.

18
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Cundys Harbor Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount in line with the Maine average.

18th pct.
national personnel size
-14%
vs. Maine 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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
32/100
Cundys Harbor Volunteer Fire Department

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 D
18 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
18 personnel · 1 station

Cundys Harbor Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Harpswell, ME (Cumberland County), with 1 station and 18 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #18,419 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #18,419 of 22,440
  • ME personnel rank #237 of 290
  • 5.56 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 46 other listed departments in Cumberland County

Cundys Harbor Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

18 Top 82% higher than 18% 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 C1551 · Cundys Harbor Volunteer Fire Department, ME 18 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 18
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #18,419
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Albany Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Albany Volunteer Fire Department, TX (+ 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
Harpswell, ME
FDID
C1551

Staffing vs the Maine average

How Cundys Harbor Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maine. In-state it ranks #237 of 290 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #18,419 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 14% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
20
ME departments
497

County roster fringe

Cundys Harbor Volunteer Fire Department is 1.0% 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.

5.56 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 18 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Albany Volunteer Fire Department, TX (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

Nationwide volunteer peers near 18 personnel

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