Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderMillbury Fire Department
Millbury, MA · Worcester County. Millbury Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 4 stations and 53 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.
- 53
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Millbury Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Massachusetts average.
- Top 16%
- national personnel size
- +51%
- vs. Massachusetts average
- 4
- stations
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 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.
Millbury Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Millbury, MA (Worcester County), with 4 stations and 53 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,480 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,480 of 22,440
- MA personnel rank #104 of 326
- 7.55 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 71 other listed departments in Worcester County
Millbury Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
53 Top 16% higher than 84% 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 27186 · Millbury Fire Department, MA 53 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 53
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #3,480
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Golden Valley
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Golden Valley Fire Department, MN (+ 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 MA department.
- Millbury (this dept) 53
- High Fairfield Hose Co…, PA 53
- Near Golden Valley, MN 53
- Near Monterey, CA 53
- Near North Union Towns…, PA 53
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Millbury, MA
- County
- Worcester County
- FDID
- 27186
Staffing vs the Massachusetts average
How Millbury Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Massachusetts. In-state it ranks #104 of 326 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,480 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 51
- MA departments
- 568
County roster fringe
Millbury Fire Department is 1.9% of Worcester County roster mass
The county lists 94 departments totaling 2,783 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 64% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
7.55 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 53 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Golden Valley Fire Department, MN (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 53 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MA department.