Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderEastern Garrett County Volunteer Fire and Rescue
Frostburg, MD · Garrett County. Eastern Garrett County Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 45 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.
- 45
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Eastern Garrett County Volunteer Fire and Rescue pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well below the Maryland average.
- Top 21%
- national personnel size
- -51%
- vs. Maryland 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.
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.
Eastern Garrett County Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Frostburg, MD (Garrett County), with 1 station and 45 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,801 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,801 of 22,440
- MD personnel rank #131 of 179
- 2.22 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 11 other listed departments in Garrett County
Eastern Garrett County Volunteer Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
45 Top 21% higher than 79% 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 11080 · Eastern Garrett County Volunteer Fire and Rescue, MD 45 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 45
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,801
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cassandra Volunte…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Cassandra Volunteer Fire Company, PA (+ 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 MD department.
- Eastern Garrett C… (this dept) 45
- High Pennington Fire C…, NJ 45
- Near Cassandra Volunte…, PA 45
- Near Ellendale Fire Pr…, ND 45
- Near Meherrin Voluntee…, VA 45
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Frostburg, MD
- County
- Garrett County
- FDID
- 11080
Staffing vs the Maryland average
How Eastern Garrett County Volunteer Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maryland. In-state it ranks #131 of 179 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,801 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 67
- MD departments
- 379
County roster geometry
Garrett County HIFLD mix around Eastern Garrett County Volunteer Fire and Rescue
Garrett County: 13 departments, 322 personnel (9 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 15% of departments. County / state rollup.
2.22 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 45 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Cassandra Volunteer Fire Company, PA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 45 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MD department.