Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Danvers Fire Department

Danvers, MA · Essex County. Danvers Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 52 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.

52
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Danvers Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Massachusetts average.

Top 16%
national personnel size
+49%
vs. Massachusetts average
2
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
57/100
Danvers 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 C
26 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
52 personnel · 2 stations

Danvers Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Danvers, MA (Essex County), with 2 stations and 52 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,558 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #3,558 of 22,440
  • MA personnel rank #105 of 326
  • 3.85 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 47 other listed departments in Essex County

Danvers Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

52 Top 16% higher than 84% 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 09071 · Danvers Fire Department, MA 52 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 52
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #3,558
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Silverdale Volunt…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Silverdale Volunteer Fire Company, PA (+ 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 MA department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Danvers, MA
FDID
09071

Staffing vs the Massachusetts average

How Danvers Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Massachusetts. In-state it ranks #105 of 326 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,558 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 49% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
51
MA departments
568

County roster fringe

Danvers Fire Department is 2.6% of Essex County roster mass

The county lists 55 departments totaling 1,997 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 80% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.85 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 52 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Silverdale Volunteer Fire Company, PA (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide career peers near 52 personnel

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