Department profile
VolunteerMadawaska Fire Department
Madawaska, ME · Aroostook County. Madawaska Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 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
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Madawaska Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Maine average.
- Top 14%
- national personnel size
- +162%
- vs. Maine average
- 2
- stations
- $500,006
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Madawaska Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Madawaska, ME (Aroostook County), with 2 stations and 55 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,191 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $500,006.
- National personnel rank #3,191 of 22,440
- ME personnel rank #35 of 290
- 3.64 stations per 100 personnel
- 27 other listed departments in Aroostook County
Madawaska 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 B3220 · Madawaska Fire Department, ME 55 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 55
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #3,191
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Belton Fire Depar…
- FEMA-MID $500K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Belton Fire Department / Emergency Medical Services, TX (+ 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 ME department.
- Madawaska (this dept) 55
- High City of Ennis Fir…, TX 55
- Near Belton Fire Depar…, TX 55
- Near Boerne Volunteer, TX 55
- Near Champions Area Vo…, TX 55
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Madawaska, ME
- County
- Aroostook County
- FDID
- B3220
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | EMW-2011-FV-0260 | $500,006 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Maine average
How Madawaska Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maine. In-state it ranks #35 of 290 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,191 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 20
- ME departments
- 497
County roster fringe
Madawaska Fire Department is 9.3% of Aroostook County roster mass
The county lists 28 departments totaling 592 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 7% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.64 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 55 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Belton Fire Department / Emergency Medical Services, TX (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 55 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every ME department.