Department profile

Volunteer

East Baldwin Fire Station

West Baldwin, ME · Cumberland County. East Baldwin Fire Station is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 65 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

65
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Not reported
EMS service

The verdict

East Baldwin Fire Station pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Maine average.

Top 10%
national personnel size
+210%
vs. Maine average
3
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
44/100
East Baldwin Fire Station

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
21.7 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
65 personnel · 3 stations

East Baldwin Fire Station is a Volunteer department serving West Baldwin, ME (Cumberland County), with 3 stations and 65 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,199 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,199 of 22,440
  • ME personnel rank #21 of 290
  • 4.62 stations per 100 personnel
  • 46 other listed departments in Cumberland County

East Baldwin Fire Station vs. the national personnel distribution

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

65 Top 10% higher than 90% 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 C1220 · East Baldwin Fire Station, ME 65 personnel · 3 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-MID 65
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-UNK EMS pending
  • RANK-TOP #2,199
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Alexis Fire Prote…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Alexis Fire Protection District, IL (+ 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
West Baldwin, ME
FDID
C1220

Staffing vs the Maine average

How East Baldwin Fire Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maine. In-state it ranks #21 of 290 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,199 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 210% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
20
ME departments
497

County roster fringe

East Baldwin Fire Station is 3.4% 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.

4.62 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 65 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Alexis Fire Protection District, IL (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 65 personnel

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