Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Mattawamkeag Fire and Rescue

Mattawamkeag, ME · Penobscot County. Mattawamkeag Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 24 total personnel. The department also provides EMS services. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

24
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Mattawamkeag Fire and Rescue pairs modest national personnel with a headcount in line with the Maine average.

35th pct.
national personnel size
+14%
vs. Maine 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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
51/100
Mattawamkeag Fire and Rescue

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 C
24 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
24 personnel · 1 station

Mattawamkeag Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Mattawamkeag, ME (Penobscot County), with 1 station and 24 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #14,604 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #14,604 of 22,440
  • ME personnel rank #191 of 290
  • 4.17 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 45 other listed departments in Penobscot County

Mattawamkeag Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

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

24 Top 65% higher than 35% 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 J3320 · Mattawamkeag Fire and Rescue, ME 24 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 24
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #14,604
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ 134th Ces/Cef Ten…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: 134th Ces/Cef Tennessee Air National Guard-Dod, TN (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Mattawamkeag, ME
FDID
J3320

Staffing vs the Maine average

How Mattawamkeag Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maine. In-state it ranks #191 of 290 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #14,604 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 14% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
20
ME departments
497

County roster fringe

Mattawamkeag Fire and Rescue is 2.3% of Penobscot County roster mass

The county lists 48 departments totaling 1,043 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 42% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

4.17 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 24 roster).

Photo-finish peer: 134th Ces/Cef Tennessee Air National Guard-Dod, TN (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 24 personnel

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