Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderOxford Fire and Rescue - Central Station
Oxford, ME · Oxford County. Oxford Fire and Rescue - Central Station is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 74 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.
- 74
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Oxford Fire and Rescue - Central Station pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Maine average.
- Top 8%
- national personnel size
- +252%
- vs. Maine 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.
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.
Oxford Fire and Rescue - Central Station is a Volunteer department serving Oxford, ME (Oxford County), with 2 stations and 74 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,731 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,731 of 22,440
- ME personnel rank #12 of 290
- 2.70 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 37 other listed departments in Oxford County
Oxford Fire and Rescue - Central Station vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
74 Top 8% higher than 92% 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 I3870 · Oxford Fire and Rescue - Central Station, ME 74 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 74
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,731
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Shawnee
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Shawnee Fire Department, KS (+ 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 ME department.
- Oxford Fire and R… (this dept) 74
- High Fort Oglethorpe, GA 74
- Near Shawnee, KS 74
- Near Forest Grove Fire…, OR 74
- Near Clear Creek Fire…, CO 74
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Oxford, ME
- County
- Oxford County
- FDID
- I3870
Staffing vs the Maine average
How Oxford Fire and Rescue - Central Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maine. In-state it ranks #12 of 290 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,731 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 20
- ME departments
- 497
County roster fringe
Oxford Fire and Rescue - Central Station is 8.8% of Oxford County roster mass
The county lists 41 departments totaling 840 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 12% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.70 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 74 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Shawnee Fire Department, KS (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 74 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every ME department.