Department profile

Volunteer

New Braintree Fire Department

New Braintree, MA · Worcester County. New Braintree Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 19 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

19
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

New Braintree Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Massachusetts average.

19th pct.
national personnel size
-46%
vs. Massachusetts 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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
35/100
New Braintree 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 D
19 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
19 personnel · 1 station

New Braintree Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving New Braintree, MA (Worcester County), with 1 station and 19 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #18,113 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #18,113 of 22,440
  • MA personnel rank #302 of 326
  • 5.26 stations per 100 personnel
  • 71 other listed departments in Worcester County

New Braintree Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

19 Top 81% higher than 19% 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 27202 · New Braintree Fire Department, MA 19 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 19
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-LOWER #18,113
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Grand River Volun…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Grand River Volunteer Fire Department, IA (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
New Braintree, MA
FDID
27202

Staffing vs the Massachusetts average

How New Braintree Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Massachusetts. In-state it ranks #302 of 326 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #18,113 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 46% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
51
MA departments
568

County roster fringe

New Braintree Fire Department is 0.7% 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.

5.26 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 19 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Grand River Volunteer Fire Department, IA (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 19 personnel

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