Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Jessup Volunteer Fire Department

Jessup, MD · Anne Arundel County. Jessup Volunteer Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 30 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.

30
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Jessup Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well below the Maryland average.

Top 46%
national personnel size
-67%
vs. Maryland 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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
67/100
Jessup Volunteer 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 B
30 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
30 personnel · 1 station

Jessup Volunteer Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Jessup, MD (Anne Arundel County), with 1 station and 30 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #10,290 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #10,290 of 22,440
  • MD personnel rank #158 of 179
  • 3.33 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 33 other listed departments in Anne Arundel County

Jessup Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

30 Top 46% higher than 54% 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 24029 · Jessup Volunteer Fire Department, MD 30 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 30
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #10,290
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Dalton Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Dalton Volunteer Fire Department, WI (+ 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 MD department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY CAREER
Location
Jessup, MD
FDID
24029

Staffing vs the Maryland average

How Jessup Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maryland. In-state it ranks #158 of 179 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #10,290 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 67% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
67
MD departments
379

County roster fringe

Jessup Volunteer Fire Department is 2.8% of Anne Arundel County roster mass

The county lists 37 departments totaling 1,082 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 95% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 30 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Dalton Volunteer Fire Department, WI (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide career peers near 30 personnel

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