Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Middleton Fire and Rescue

Middleton, NH · Strafford County. Middleton Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 127 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.

127
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Middleton Fire and Rescue pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the New Hampshire average.

Top 3%
national personnel size
+408%
vs. New Hampshire 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
100/100
Middleton 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 A
127 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
127 personnel · 1 station

Middleton Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Middleton, NH (Strafford County), with 1 station and 127 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #590 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #590 of 22,440
  • NH personnel rank #3 of 203
  • 0.79 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 16 other listed departments in Strafford County

Middleton Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

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

127 Top 3% higher than 97% 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 80799 · Middleton Fire and Rescue, NH 127 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MID 127
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #590
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Greenlawn
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Greenlawn Fire Department, NY (+ 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 NH department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Middleton, NH
FDID
80799

Staffing vs the New Hampshire average

How Middleton Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Hampshire. In-state it ranks #3 of 203 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #590 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 408% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
10
NH departments
293

County roster geometry

Strafford County HIFLD mix around Middleton Fire and Rescue

Strafford County: 17 departments, 596 personnel (10 volunteer / 3 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 100% of departments. County / state rollup.

0.79 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 127 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Greenlawn Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

Barrington Fire and Rescue
Barrington · volunteer
Durham Fire Department
Durham · career
Farmington Fire and Rescue
Farmington · volunteer
Madbury Fire Department
Madbury · volunteer
Milton Fire Rescue
Milton · volunteer
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 127 personnel

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