Department profile
VolunteerHudson Volunteer Fire Department
Hudson, ME · Penobscot County. Hudson Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department and 19 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 19
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Hudson Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount in line with the Maine average.
- 20th pct.
- national personnel size
- -10%
- vs. Maine average
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.
Hudson Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Hudson, ME (Penobscot County) and 19 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #18,024 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #18,024 of 22,440
- ME personnel rank #231 of 290
- 45 other listed departments in Penobscot County
Hudson Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
19 Top 80% higher than 20% 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 J2800 · Hudson Volunteer Fire Department, ME 19 personnel
PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 19
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-LOWER #18,024
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Albion Fire Depar…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 2/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Albion Fire Department Rural Fire Protection District, IL (+ 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 ME department.
- Hudson Volunteer (this dept) 19
- High Ashland Rural, KS 19
- Near Albion Fire Depar…, IL 19
- Near Alton Volunteer, TX 19
- Near Alvarado Volunteer, TX 19
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Hudson, ME
- County
- Penobscot County
- FDID
- J2800
Staffing vs the Maine average
How Hudson Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maine. In-state it ranks #231 of 290 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #18,024 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 20
- ME departments
- 497
County roster fringe
Hudson Volunteer Fire Department is 1.8% of Penobscot County roster mass
The county lists 48 departments totaling 1,043 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 42% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Albion Fire Department Rural Fire Protection District, IL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 19 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every ME department.