Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderFort Meade Fire and Emergency Services-Dod
Fort Meade, MD · Anne Arundel County. Fort Meade Fire and Emergency Services-Dod is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 44 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.
- 44
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Fort Meade Fire and Emergency Services-Dod pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well below the Maryland average.
- Top 23%
- national personnel size
- -52%
- 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.
Fort Meade Fire and Emergency Services-Dod is a Career (Paid) department serving Fort Meade, MD (Anne Arundel County), with 1 station and 44 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,125 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,125 of 22,440
- MD personnel rank #136 of 179
- 2.27 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 33 other listed departments in Anne Arundel County
Fort Meade Fire and Emergency Services-Dod vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
44 Top 23% higher than 77% 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 AA003 · Fort Meade Fire and Emergency Services-Dod, MD 44 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 44
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,125
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Augusta Fire Depa…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Augusta Fire Department - Central Station, ME (+ 0 personnel)
Career/paid 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.
- Fort Meade Fire a… (this dept) 44
- High Cibolo Volunteer, TX 44
- Near Augusta Fire Depa…, ME 44
- Near Bastrop, TX 44
- Near Bulverde, TX 44
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Fort Meade, MD
- County
- Anne Arundel County
- FDID
- AA003
Staffing vs the Maryland average
How Fort Meade Fire and Emergency Services-Dod's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maryland. In-state it ranks #136 of 179 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,125 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 67
- MD departments
- 379
County roster fringe
Fort Meade Fire and Emergency Services-Dod is 4.1% of Anne Arundel County roster mass
The county lists 37 departments totaling 1,082 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 95% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.27 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 44 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Augusta Fire Department - Central Station, ME (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 44 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MD department.