Department profile

Volunteer

Deer Isle Volunteer Fire Department

Deer Isle, ME · Hancock County. Deer Isle Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 36 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

36
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Not reported
EMS service

The verdict

Deer Isle Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Maine average.

Top 32%
national personnel size
+71%
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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
78/100
Deer Isle 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 B
36 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
36 personnel · 1 station

Deer Isle Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Deer Isle, ME (Hancock County), with 1 station and 36 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,267 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #7,267 of 22,440
  • ME personnel rank #89 of 290
  • 2.78 stations per 100 personnel
  • 39 other listed departments in Hancock County

Deer Isle Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

36 Top 32% higher than 68% 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 E2050 · Deer Isle Volunteer Fire Department, ME 36 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-SMALL 36
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-UNK EMS pending
  • RANK-UPPER #7,267
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bellaire
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Bellaire 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
Deer Isle, ME
FDID
E2050

Staffing vs the Maine average

How Deer Isle Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maine. In-state it ranks #89 of 290 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,267 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 71% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
20
ME departments
497

County roster fringe

Deer Isle Volunteer Fire Department is 4.9% of Hancock County roster mass

The county lists 44 departments totaling 740 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 27% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.78 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 36 roster).

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

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 36 personnel

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