Department profile

Volunteer

Rawlings Volunteer Fire Department

Rawlings, MD · Allegany County. Rawlings Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 21 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

21
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Rawlings Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Maryland average.

27th pct.
national personnel size
-77%
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
42/100
Rawlings Volunteer 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 C
21 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
21 personnel · 1 station

Rawlings Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Rawlings, MD (Allegany County), with 1 station and 21 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #16,468 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #16,468 of 22,440
  • MD personnel rank #174 of 179
  • 4.76 stations per 100 personnel
  • 23 other listed departments in Allegany County

Rawlings Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

21 Top 73% higher than 27% 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 01047 · Rawlings Volunteer Fire Department, MD 21 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 21
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-LOWER #16,468
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lyons Point Volun…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Lyons Point Volunteer Fire Department, LA (+ 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 MD department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Rawlings, MD
FDID
01047

Staffing vs the Maryland average

How Rawlings Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maryland. In-state it ranks #174 of 179 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #16,468 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 77% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
67
MD departments
379

County roster fringe

Rawlings Volunteer Fire Department is 2.0% of Allegany County roster mass

The county lists 30 departments totaling 1,054 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 33% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

4.76 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 21 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Lyons Point Volunteer Fire Department, LA (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 21 personnel

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