Department profile
VolunteerIndian River Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated
Millsboro, DE · Sussex County. Indian River Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 80 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 80
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Indian River Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount above the Delaware average.
- Top 7%
- national personnel size
- +23%
- vs. Delaware 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.
Indian River Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated is a Volunteer department serving Millsboro, DE (Sussex County), with 2 stations and 80 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,482 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,482 of 22,440
- DE personnel rank #21 of 51
- 2.50 stations per 100 personnel
- 26 other listed departments in Sussex County
Indian River Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
80 Top 7% higher than 93% 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 40080 · Indian River Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated, DE 80 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 80
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #1,482
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Uinta County Fire…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Uinta County Fire Protection District - Evanston, WY (+ 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.
- Indian River Volu… (this dept) 80
- High Lancaster Township, PA 80
- Near Uinta County Fire…, WY 80
- Near North Sabine Volu…, LA 80
- Near Upper Leacock Fir…, PA 80
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Millsboro, DE
- County
- Sussex County
- FDID
- 40080
Staffing vs the Delaware average
How Indian River Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated's personnel count compares to the typical department in Delaware. In-state it ranks #21 of 51 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,482 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 11
- DE departments
- 80
County roster fringe
Indian River Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated is 5.2% of Sussex County roster mass
The county lists 29 departments totaling 1,544 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 66% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.50 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 80 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Uinta County Fire Protection District - Evanston, WY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 80 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every DE department.