Department profile

Volunteer

Madison Volunteer Fire Company

Madison, MD · Dorchester County. Madison Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 45 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

45
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Madison Volunteer Fire Company pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well below the Maryland average.

Top 22%
national personnel size
-51%
vs. Maryland average
1
station

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
PlainFireData Composite Score
89/100
Madison Volunteer Fire Company

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 A
45 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
45 personnel · 1 station

Madison Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Madison, MD (Dorchester County), with 1 station and 45 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,899 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #4,899 of 22,440
  • MD personnel rank #132 of 179
  • 2.22 stations per 100 personnel
  • 14 other listed departments in Dorchester County

Madison Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

45 Top 22% higher than 78% 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 09056 · Madison Volunteer Fire Company, MD 45 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 45
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #4,899
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Richland Township…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Richland Township Fire and Rescue, 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 MD department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Madison, MD
FDID
09056

Staffing vs the Maryland average

How Madison Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maryland. In-state it ranks #132 of 179 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,899 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 51% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
67
MD departments
379

County roster fringe

Madison Volunteer Fire Company is 9.4% of Dorchester County roster mass

The county lists 15 departments totaling 479 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 53% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.22 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 45 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Richland Township Fire and Rescue, PA (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 45 personnel

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