Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Pascoag Fire Department

Pascoag, RI · Providence County. Pascoag Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 64 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.

64
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Pascoag Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount well above the Rhode Island average.

Top 10%
national personnel size
+68%
vs. Rhode Island 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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
72/100
Pascoag 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 B
32 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
64 personnel · 2 stations

Pascoag Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Pascoag, RI (Providence County), with 2 stations and 64 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,326 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,326 of 22,440
  • RI personnel rank #16 of 66
  • 3.13 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 33 other listed departments in Providence County

Pascoag Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

64 Top 10% higher than 90% 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 00305 · Pascoag Fire Department, RI 64 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-MID 64
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #2,326
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Siuslaw Valley Fi…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Siuslaw Valley Fire and Rescue, OR (+ 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 RI department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Pascoag, RI
FDID
00305

Staffing vs the Rhode Island average

How Pascoag Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Rhode Island. In-state it ranks #16 of 66 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,326 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 68% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
9
RI departments
111

County roster fringe

Pascoag Fire Department is 2.8% of Providence County roster mass

The county lists 46 departments totaling 2,266 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 61% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.13 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 64 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Siuslaw Valley Fire and Rescue, OR (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 64 personnel

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