Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderHockessin Fire Company
Hockessin, DE · New Castle County. Hockessin Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 49 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.
- 49
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Hockessin Fire Company pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount below the Delaware average.
- Top 19%
- national personnel size
- -25%
- 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 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.
Hockessin Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Hockessin, DE (New Castle County), with 1 station and 49 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,164 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,164 of 22,440
- DE personnel rank #47 of 51
- 2.04 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 23 other listed departments in New Castle County
Hockessin Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
49 Top 19% higher than 81% 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 20019 · Hockessin Fire Company, DE 49 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 49
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,164
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ City of Monrovia
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: City of Monrovia Fire Department, CA (+ 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.
- Hockessin Fire Co… (this dept) 49
- High Menomonie, WI 49
- Near City of Monrovia, CA 49
- Near Brainerd, MN 49
- Near Sherborn Fire Res…, MA 49
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Hockessin, DE
- County
- New Castle County
- FDID
- 20019
Staffing vs the Delaware average
How Hockessin Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Delaware. In-state it ranks #47 of 51 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,164 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 11
- DE departments
- 80
County roster fringe
Hockessin Fire Company is 2.1% of New Castle County roster mass
The county lists 31 departments totaling 2,350 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 71% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.04 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 49 roster).
Photo-finish peer: City of Monrovia Fire Department, CA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 49 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every DE department.