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Kensington Volunteer Fire Department

Kensington, MD · Montgomery County. Kensington Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department. 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.

Not reported
Total personnel
Not reported
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service
F
PlainFireData Composite Score
0/100
Kensington 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
No station count on file for this department
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
Other department profile

Kensington Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department serving Kensington, MD (Montgomery County). According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,235,366.

  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 22 other listed departments in Montgomery County

Dispatch plate

Sheet MD-KENSINGTON-VOLUNTEER-FIRE-DEPARTMENT-MD · Kensington Volunteer Fire Department, MD personnel n/a

PERS-UNK · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-UNK · GAP-UNK · FEMA-MID · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-UNK Staff pending
  • STA-UNK Stations pending
  • TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UNK Rank pending
  • GAP-UNK Gap pending
  • FEMA-MID $1.2M
  • BOOK-PART 2/5 fields

Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.

Department Profile

Type
Location
Kensington, MD

FEMA Grant History

$1.2M
Cumulative funding (FY2013–2022)
4
Awards
Year Award Amount
2022 EMW-2022-FF-00134 $459,200
2020 EMW-2020-FF-00126 $406,268
2019 EMW-2019-FF-00564 $193,452.08
2013 EMW2012FF00355 $176,446

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

County roster geometry

Montgomery County HIFLD mix around Kensington Volunteer Fire Department

Montgomery County: 24 departments, 3,361 personnel (7 volunteer / 5 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 83% of departments. County / state rollup.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many firefighters does Kensington Volunteer Fire Department have?

Personnel data for Kensington Volunteer Fire Department is not available in the HIFLD database.

Does Kensington Volunteer Fire Department provide EMS services?

Yes, Kensington Volunteer Fire Department provides Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in addition to fire response.

How many fire stations does Kensington Volunteer Fire Department operate?

Station count data for Kensington Volunteer Fire Department is not available in the HIFLD database.

What type of fire department is Kensington Volunteer Fire Department?

Kensington Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department serving Montgomery County, MD.

Has Kensington Volunteer Fire Department received federal grants?

Yes, Kensington Volunteer Fire Department has received 4 FEMA grants totaling $1,235,366.08 in cumulative AFG and SAFER awards across FY2013–2022 (sum of all recorded award years, not a single-year figure). The most recent award year in our extract is FY2022.

How many fire departments are in Maryland?

Maryland has 379 fire departments with 34,910 total personnel. 58% are volunteer departments.

Related guides

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Verify with USFA/FEMA →

HIFLD/USFA registry extract, informational only, not a readiness rating.