Department profile

Volunteer

Middle River Volunteer Fire Company

Baltimore, MD · Baltimore County. Middle River Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 58 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

58
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

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

Top 13%
national personnel size
-37%
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
93/100
Middle River 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
58 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
58 personnel · 1 station

Middle River Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Baltimore, MD (Baltimore County), with 1 station and 58 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,841 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,841 of 22,440
  • MD personnel rank #102 of 179
  • 1.72 stations per 100 personnel
  • 32 other listed departments in Baltimore County

Middle River Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

58 Top 13% higher than 87% 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 03122 · Middle River Volunteer Fire Company, MD 58 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MID 58
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #2,841
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lenox
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Lenox Fire Department, MA (+ 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
Baltimore, MD
FDID
03122

Staffing vs the Maryland average

How Middle River Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maryland. In-state it ranks #102 of 179 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,841 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 37% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
67
MD departments
379

County roster fringe

Middle River Volunteer Fire Company is 0.7% 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.

1.72 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 58 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Lenox Fire Department, MA (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 58 personnel

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