Department profile
VolunteerPatten Fire Department
Patten, ME · Penobscot County. Patten Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 8 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 8
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Patten Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Maine average.
- 1st pct.
- national personnel size
- -62%
- vs. Maine 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.
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.
Patten Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Patten, ME (Penobscot County), with 1 station and 8 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,234 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #22,234 of 22,440
- ME personnel rank #288 of 290
- 12.50 stations per 100 personnel
- 45 other listed departments in Penobscot County
Patten Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
8 Top 99% higher than 1% 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 J3940 · Patten Fire Department, ME 8 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MICRO 8
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-LOWER #22,234
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Alamo Springs Vol…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Alamo Springs Volunteer Fire Department, TX (+ 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.
- Patten (this dept) 8
- High Brookshire Volunt…, TX 8
- Near Alamo Springs Vol…, TX 8
- Near Ash Fork Fire Dis…, AZ 8
- Near Beaver Creek Volu…, TX 8
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Patten, ME
- County
- Penobscot County
- FDID
- J3940
Staffing vs the Maine average
How Patten Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maine. In-state it ranks #288 of 290 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,234 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 20
- ME departments
- 497
County roster fringe
Patten Fire Department is 0.8% of Penobscot County roster mass
The county lists 48 departments totaling 1,043 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 42% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
12.50 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 8 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Alamo Springs Volunteer Fire Department, TX (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 8 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every ME department.