Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Falls Village Volunteer Fire Department

Canaan, CT · Litchfield County. Falls Village Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 65 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.

65
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Falls Village Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount well above the Connecticut average.

Top 10%
national personnel size
+63%
vs. Connecticut 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
PlainFireData Composite Score
94/100
Falls Village 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 A
65 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
65 personnel · 1 station

Falls Village Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Canaan, CT (Litchfield County), with 1 station and 65 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,203 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,203 of 22,440
  • CT personnel rank #70 of 203
  • 1.54 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 42 other listed departments in Litchfield County

Falls Village Volunteer Fire Department 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 01040 · Falls Village Volunteer Fire Department, CT 65 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 65
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #2,203
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Colonie Fire Comp…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Colonie Fire Company, NY (+ 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 CT department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Canaan, CT
FDID
01040

Staffing vs the Connecticut average

How Falls Village Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Connecticut. In-state it ranks #70 of 203 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,203 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 63% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
34
CT departments
418

County roster fringe

Falls Village Volunteer Fire Department is 3.9% of Litchfield County roster mass

The county lists 48 departments totaling 1,685 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 38% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

1.54 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 65 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Colonie Fire Company, NY (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 65 personnel

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