Department profile
VolunteerLavale Volunteer Fire Department
Lavale, MD · Allegany County. Lavale Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 89 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 89
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Lavale Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount in line with the Maryland average.
- Top 5%
- national personnel size
- -3%
- vs. Maryland 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.
Lavale Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Lavale, MD (Allegany County), with 2 stations and 89 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,200 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,200 of 22,440
- MD personnel rank #51 of 179
- 2.25 stations per 100 personnel
- 23 other listed departments in Allegany County
Lavale Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
89 Top 5% higher than 95% 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 01002 · Lavale Volunteer Fire Department, MD 89 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 89
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #1,200
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Somerset Fire and…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Somerset Fire and Emergency Medical Services, KY (+ 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 MD department.
- Lavale Volunteer (this dept) 89
- High Montclair, NJ 89
- Near Somerset Fire and…, KY 89
- Near Eastman Fire and…, SC 89
- Near Conneaut, OH 89
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Lavale, MD
- County
- Allegany County
- FDID
- 01002
Staffing vs the Maryland average
How Lavale Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maryland. In-state it ranks #51 of 179 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,200 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 67
- MD departments
- 379
County roster fringe
Lavale Volunteer Fire Department is 8.4% of Allegany County roster mass
The county lists 30 departments totaling 1,054 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 33% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.25 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 89 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Somerset Fire and Emergency Medical Services, KY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 89 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MD department.