Department profile
Career (Paid)Lewiston Fire Department
Lewiston, ME · Androscoggin County. Lewiston Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 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
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Lewiston Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Maine average.
- Top 7%
- national personnel size
- +281%
- vs. Maine average
- 4
- 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.
Lewiston Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Lewiston, ME (Androscoggin County), with 4 stations and 80 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,486 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,486 of 22,440
- ME personnel rank #10 of 290
- 5.00 stations per 100 personnel
- 14 other listed departments in Androscoggin County
Lewiston Fire Department 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 A0160 · Lewiston Fire Department, ME 80 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-UNK · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MID 80
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-TOP #1,486
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Ford County Fire…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Ford County Fire and Emergency Medical Services, KS (+ 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 ME department.
- Lewiston (this dept) 80
- High Texarkana, TX 80
- Near Ford County Fire…, KS 80
- Near Geary County Rural, KS 80
- Near Rosemont, IL 80
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Lewiston, ME
- County
- Androscoggin County
- FDID
- A0160
Staffing vs the Maine average
How Lewiston Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maine. In-state it ranks #10 of 290 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,486 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 20
- ME departments
- 497
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Androscoggin County
County mix is mostly volunteer (8 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
5.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 80 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Ford County Fire and Emergency Medical Services, KS (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 80 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every ME department.