Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Gosnold Fire Department

Gosnold, MA · Dukes County. Gosnold Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 10 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.

10
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Gosnold Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Massachusetts average.

2nd pct.
national personnel size
-71%
vs. Massachusetts 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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
8/100
Gosnold 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 F
10 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
10 personnel · 1 station

Gosnold Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Gosnold, MA (Dukes County), with 1 station and 10 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #21,915 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #21,915 of 22,440
  • MA personnel rank #323 of 326
  • 10.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 6 other listed departments in Dukes County

Gosnold Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

10 Top 98% higher than 2% 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 07109 · Gosnold Fire Department, MA 10 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MICRO 10
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #21,915
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Boncarbo Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Boncarbo Volunteer Fire Department, CO (+ 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 MA department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Gosnold, MA
FDID
07109

Staffing vs the Massachusetts average

How Gosnold Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Massachusetts. In-state it ranks #323 of 326 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #21,915 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 71% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
51
MA departments
568

County roster fringe

Gosnold Fire Department is 4.4% of Dukes County roster mass

The county lists 10 departments totaling 226 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 40% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

10.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 10 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Boncarbo Volunteer Fire Department, CO (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 10 personnel

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