Department profile
Career (Paid)Hanscom Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod
Hanscom Afb, MA · Middlesex County. Hanscom Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 100 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 100
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Hanscom Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Massachusetts average.
- Top 4%
- national personnel size
- +186%
- 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.
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.
Hanscom Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod is a Career (Paid) department serving Hanscom Afb, MA (Middlesex County), with 1 station and 100 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #940 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #940 of 22,440
- MA personnel rank #28 of 326
- 1.00 stations per 100 personnel
- 65 other listed departments in Middlesex County
Hanscom Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
100 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 F1004 · Hanscom Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod, MA 100 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-UNK · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MID 100
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-TOP #940
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bangor Fire Depar…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Bangor Fire Department - Central Station, ME (+ 0 personnel)
Career/paid 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.
- Hanscom Air Force… (this dept) 100
- High Stafford County R…, KS 100
- Near Bangor Fire Depar…, ME 100
- Near League City Volun…, TX 100
- Near Palatine, IL 100
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Hanscom Afb, MA
- County
- Middlesex County
- FDID
- F1004
Staffing vs the Massachusetts average
How Hanscom Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod's personnel count compares to the typical department in Massachusetts. In-state it ranks #28 of 326 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #940 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 51
- MA departments
- 568
County roster fringe
Hanscom Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod is 2.7% of Middlesex County roster mass
The county lists 95 departments totaling 3,724 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 99% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
1.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 100 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Bangor Fire Department - Central Station, ME (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 100 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MA department.