Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Fort 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
PlainFireData Composite Score
88/100
Fort Meade Fire and Emergency Services-Dod

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
44 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
44 personnel · 1 station

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.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Fort Meade, MD
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.

▼ 52% below the state average
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).

Nationwide career peers near 44 personnel

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