Department profile

Career (Paid)

Martin State Airport Fire Department

Baltimore, MD · Baltimore County. Martin State Airport Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 33 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

33
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Not reported
EMS service

The verdict

Martin State Airport Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well below the Maryland average.

Top 39%
national personnel size
-64%
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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
75/100
Martin State Airport 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 B
33 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
33 personnel · 1 station

Martin State Airport Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Baltimore, MD (Baltimore County), with 1 station and 33 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,765 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #8,765 of 22,440
  • MD personnel rank #154 of 179
  • 3.03 stations per 100 personnel
  • 32 other listed departments in Baltimore County

Martin State Airport Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

33 Top 39% higher than 61% 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 MD-MARTIN-STATE-AIRPORT-FIRE-DEPARTMENT-MD · Martin State Airport Fire Department, MD 33 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-UNK · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-SMALL 33
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-UNK EMS pending
  • RANK-UPPER #8,765
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Aviston Fire Prot…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 2/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Aviston Fire Protection District, IL (+ 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 MD department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Baltimore, MD

Staffing vs the Maryland average

How Martin State Airport Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maryland. In-state it ranks #154 of 179 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,765 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 64% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
67
MD departments
379

County roster fringe

Martin State Airport Fire Department is 0.4% of Baltimore County roster mass

The county lists 35 departments totaling 8,161 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 57% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.03 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 33 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Aviston Fire Protection District, IL (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide career peers near 33 personnel

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