Department profile
OtherEMS ProviderGaithersburg-Washington Grove Volunteer Fire Department
Derwood, MD · Montgomery County. Gaithersburg-Washington Grove Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department, 2 stations and 109 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.
- 109
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Gaithersburg-Washington Grove Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount above the Maryland average.
- Top 4%
- national personnel size
- +18%
- vs. Maryland average
- 2
- stations
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.
Gaithersburg-Washington Grove Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department serving Derwood, MD (Montgomery County), with 2 stations and 109 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #798 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #798 of 22,440
- MD personnel rank #32 of 179
- 1.83 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 22 other listed departments in Montgomery County
Gaithersburg-Washington Grove Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
109 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 MD-GAITHERSBURG-WASHINGTON-GROVE-VOLUNTEER-FIRE-DEPAR-MD · Gaithersburg-Washington Grove Volunteer Fire Department, MD 109 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MID 109
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #798
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Effingham Fire Re…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Effingham Fire Rescue, GA (+ 0 personnel)
Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every MD department.
- Gaithersburg-Wash… (this dept) 109
- High Greenport, NY 109
- Near Effingham Fire Re…, GA 109
- Near City of Southfield, MI 109
- Near Hill Air Force Ba…, UT 109
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Derwood, MD
- County
- Montgomery County
Staffing vs the Maryland average
How Gaithersburg-Washington Grove Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maryland. In-state it ranks #32 of 179 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #798 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 67
- MD departments
- 379
County roster fringe
Gaithersburg-Washington Grove Volunteer Fire Department is 3.2% of Montgomery County roster mass
The county lists 24 departments totaling 3,361 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 83% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
1.83 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 109 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Effingham Fire Rescue, GA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 109 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MD department.