Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Friendsville Volunteer Fire Department

Friendsville, MD · Garrett County. Friendsville Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 55 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.

55
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Friendsville Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount below the Maryland average.

Top 14%
national personnel size
-40%
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
92/100
Friendsville 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
55 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
55 personnel · 1 station

Friendsville Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Friendsville, MD (Garrett County), with 1 station and 55 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,144 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #3,144 of 22,440
  • MD personnel rank #107 of 179
  • 1.82 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 11 other listed departments in Garrett County

Friendsville Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

55 Top 14% higher than 86% 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 11011 · Friendsville Volunteer Fire Department, MD 55 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MID 55
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #3,144
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Summerhill Townsh…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Summerhill Township Volunteer Fire Company, PA (+ 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 MD department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Friendsville, MD
FDID
11011

Staffing vs the Maryland average

How Friendsville Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maryland. In-state it ranks #107 of 179 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,144 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 40% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
67
MD departments
379

County roster geometry

Garrett County HIFLD mix around Friendsville Volunteer Fire Department

Garrett County: 13 departments, 322 personnel (9 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 15% of departments. County / state rollup.

1.82 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 55 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Summerhill Township Volunteer Fire Company, PA (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

Bittinger Volunteer Fire Department
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Bloomington Volunteer Fire Company
Bloomington · volunteer
Deep Creek Volunteer Fire Company
Mchenry · volunteer
Garrett County
Grantsville · volunteer
Gorman Volunteer Fire Department
Oakland · volunteer
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 55 personnel

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