Department profile
VolunteerPlainville Fire Department
Plainville, CT · Hartford County. Plainville Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 90 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 90
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Plainville Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Connecticut average.
- Top 5%
- national personnel size
- +125%
- vs. Connecticut 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.
Plainville Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Plainville, CT (Hartford County), with 1 station and 90 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,176 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,176 of 22,440
- CT personnel rank #38 of 203
- 1.11 stations per 100 personnel
- 41 other listed departments in Hartford County
Plainville Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
90 Top 5% higher than 95% 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 02200 · Plainville Fire Department, CT 90 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 90
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #1,176
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Perry Township Vo…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Perry Township Volunteer Fire Department, OH (+ 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 CT department.
- Plainville (this dept) 90
- High North Apollo Volu…, PA 90
- Near Perry Township Vo…, OH 90
- Near Stowe Township Vo…, PA 90
- Near Kannapolis, NC 90
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Plainville, CT
- County
- Hartford County
- FDID
- 02200
Staffing vs the Connecticut average
How Plainville Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Connecticut. In-state it ranks #38 of 203 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,176 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 34
- CT departments
- 418
County roster fringe
Plainville Fire Department is 2.8% of Hartford County roster mass
The county lists 74 departments totaling 3,255 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 47% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
1.11 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 90 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Perry Township Volunteer Fire Department, OH (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 90 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CT department.