Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Erving Center Fire

Erving, MA · Franklin County. Erving Center Fire is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 30 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.

30
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Erving Center Fire pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the Massachusetts average.

Top 45%
national personnel size
-14%
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
21/100
Erving Center Fire

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
15 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
30 personnel · 2 stations

Erving Center Fire is a Volunteer department serving Erving, MA (Franklin County), with 2 stations and 30 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #10,119 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #10,119 of 22,440
  • MA personnel rank #231 of 326
  • 6.67 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 29 other listed departments in Franklin County

Erving Center Fire vs. the national personnel distribution

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

30 Top 45% higher than 55% 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 11091 · Erving Center Fire, MA 30 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 30
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #10,119
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cambria Volunteer…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Cambria Volunteer Fire Department / Cambria Community Ambulance Service, WI (+ 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 MA department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Erving, MA
FDID
11091

Staffing vs the Massachusetts average

How Erving Center Fire's personnel count compares to the typical department in Massachusetts. In-state it ranks #231 of 326 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #10,119 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 14% below the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
51
MA departments
568

County roster fringe

Erving Center Fire is 4.6% of Franklin County roster mass

The county lists 35 departments totaling 655 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 77% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.67 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 30 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Cambria Volunteer Fire Department / Cambria Community Ambulance Service, WI (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

Bernardston Fire Department
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Buckland Fire Department
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Colrain Fire Department
Colrain · volunteer
Conway Fire Department
Conway · volunteer
Erving Side Fire Department
Erving · other
Gill Fire Department
Gill · volunteer
Greenfield Fire Department
Greenfield · career
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 30 personnel

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