Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Odessa Fire Company

Odessa, DE · New Castle County. Odessa Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 40 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.

40
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Odessa Fire Company pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount below the Delaware average.

Top 28%
national personnel size
-38%
vs. Delaware average
2
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
38/100
Odessa 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 D
20 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
40 personnel · 2 stations

Odessa Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Odessa, DE (New Castle County), with 2 stations and 40 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #6,217 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #6,217 of 22,440
  • DE personnel rank #51 of 51
  • 5.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 23 other listed departments in New Castle County

Odessa Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

40 Top 28% higher than 72% 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 00024 · Odessa Fire Company, DE 40 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 40
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #6,217
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cle Elum
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Cle Elum Fire Department, WA (+ 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 DE department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Odessa, DE
FDID
00024

Staffing vs the Delaware average

How Odessa Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Delaware. In-state it ranks #51 of 51 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #6,217 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 38% below the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
11
DE departments
80

County roster fringe

Odessa Fire Company is 1.7% of New Castle County roster mass

The county lists 31 departments totaling 2,350 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 71% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

5.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 40 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Cle Elum Fire Department, WA (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 40 personnel

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