Department profile
Career (Paid)Perry Point Fire Department
Perryville, MD · Cecil County. Perry Point Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 16 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 16
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Perry Point Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Maryland average.
- 12th pct.
- national personnel size
- -83%
- vs. Maryland 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.
Perry Point Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Perryville, MD (Cecil County), with 1 station and 16 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #19,763 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #19,763 of 22,440
- MD personnel rank #177 of 179
- 6.25 stations per 100 personnel
- 10 other listed departments in Cecil County
Perry Point Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
16 Top 88% higher than 12% 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 07012 · Perry Point Fire Department, MD 16 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-UNK · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 16
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-LOWER #19,763
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Philadelphia Volu…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Philadelphia Volunteer Fire Department, OK (+ 0 personnel)
Career/paid 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 MD department.
- Perry Point (this dept) 16
- High Kim Area Volunteer, CO 16
- Near Philadelphia Volu…, OK 16
- Near Red Feather Lakes…, CO 16
- Near East Grand Lake, MI 16
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Perryville, MD
- County
- Cecil County
- FDID
- 07012
Staffing vs the Maryland average
How Perry Point Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maryland. In-state it ranks #177 of 179 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #19,763 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 67
- MD departments
- 379
County roster fringe
Perry Point Fire Department is 2.5% of Cecil County roster mass
The county lists 14 departments totaling 631 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 93% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
6.25 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 16 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Philadelphia Volunteer Fire Department, OK (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 16 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MD department.