Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Frankford Volunteer Fire Company

Frankford, DE · Sussex County. Frankford Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 73 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.

73
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Frankford Volunteer Fire Company pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount in line with the Delaware average.

Top 8%
national personnel size
+12%
vs. Delaware 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
96/100
Frankford Volunteer Fire Company

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
73 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
73 personnel · 1 station

Frankford Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Frankford, DE (Sussex County), with 1 station and 73 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,758 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #1,758 of 22,440
  • DE personnel rank #26 of 51
  • 1.37 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 26 other listed departments in Sussex County

Frankford Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

73 Top 8% higher than 92% 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 40076 · Frankford Volunteer Fire Company, DE 73 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MID 73
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,758
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cooperstown Fire…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Cooperstown Fire Department and Emergency Squad, 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 DE department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Frankford, DE
FDID
40076

Staffing vs the Delaware average

How Frankford Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Delaware. In-state it ranks #26 of 51 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,758 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 12% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
11
DE departments
80

County roster fringe

Frankford Volunteer Fire Company is 4.7% of Sussex County roster mass

The county lists 29 departments totaling 1,544 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 66% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

1.37 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 73 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Cooperstown Fire Department and Emergency Squad, NY (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 73 personnel

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