Department profile

Volunteer

Leicester Fire Department

Leicester, MA · Worcester County. Leicester Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 55 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

55
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Leicester Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Massachusetts average.

Top 14%
national personnel size
+57%
vs. Massachusetts average
3
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
33/100
Leicester 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 D
18.3 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
55 personnel · 3 stations

Leicester Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Leicester, MA (Worcester County), with 3 stations and 55 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,177 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #3,177 of 22,440
  • MA personnel rank #92 of 326
  • 5.45 stations per 100 personnel
  • 71 other listed departments in Worcester County

Leicester Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

55 Top 14% higher than 86% 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 27151 · Leicester Fire Department, MA 55 personnel · 3 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 55
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #3,177
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ New Franklin Volu…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: New Franklin Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+ 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 MA department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Leicester, MA
FDID
27151

Staffing vs the Massachusetts average

How Leicester Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Massachusetts. In-state it ranks #92 of 326 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,177 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 57% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
51
MA departments
568

County roster fringe

Leicester Fire Department is 2.0% of Worcester County roster mass

The county lists 94 departments totaling 2,783 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 64% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

5.45 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 55 roster).

Photo-finish peer: New Franklin Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+0 personnel).

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

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