Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderPortland Fire Department
Portland, ME · Cumberland County. Portland Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 9 stations and 236 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.
- 236
- Total personnel
- 9
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Portland Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Maine average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +1024%
- vs. Maine average
- 9
- 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.
Portland Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Portland, ME (Cumberland County), with 9 stations and 236 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #172 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #172 of 22,440
- ME personnel rank #1 of 290
- 3.81 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 46 other listed departments in Cumberland County
Portland Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
236 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 C0190 · Portland Fire Department, ME 236 personnel · 9 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 236
- STA-MULTI 9 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #172
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ New Hyde Park
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: New Hyde Park Fire Department, NY (+ 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 ME department.
- High Naperville, IL 239
- Portland (this dept) 236
- Near New Hyde Park, NY 236
- Near Lansing Fire and…, MI 235
- Low Beaumont Fire and…, TX 234
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Portland, ME
- County
- Cumberland County
- FDID
- C0190
Staffing vs the Maine average
How Portland Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maine. In-state it ranks #1 of 290 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #172 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 9
- State fire deaths/yr
- 20
- ME departments
- 497
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Cumberland County
County mix is mostly volunteer (21 volunteer / 3 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
3.81 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (9 stations / 236 roster).
Photo-finish peer: New Hyde Park Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 236 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every ME department.