Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Frederica Volunteer Fire Company

Frederica, DE · Kent County. Frederica Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 70 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.

70
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

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

Top 9%
national personnel size
+8%
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
95/100
Frederica 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
70 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
70 personnel · 1 station

Frederica Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Frederica, DE (Kent County), with 1 station and 70 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,917 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #1,917 of 22,440
  • DE personnel rank #28 of 51
  • 1.43 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 15 other listed departments in Kent County

Frederica Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

70 Top 9% higher than 91% 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 30049 · Frederica Volunteer Fire Company, DE 70 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MID 70
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,917
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Farmingdale
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Farmingdale Fire Department, 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
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Frederica, DE
FDID
30049

Staffing vs the Delaware average

How Frederica Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Delaware. In-state it ranks #28 of 51 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,917 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 8% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
11
DE departments
80

County roster fringe

Frederica Volunteer Fire Company is 5.3% of Kent County roster mass

The county lists 20 departments totaling 1,321 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 65% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

1.43 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 70 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Farmingdale Fire Department, 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 70 personnel

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