Department profile
VolunteerRockport Fire Department
Rockport, MA · Essex County. Rockport Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 50 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 50
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Rockport Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Massachusetts average.
- Top 18%
- national personnel size
- +43%
- vs. Massachusetts average
- 2
- 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.
Rockport Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Rockport, MA (Essex County), with 2 stations and 50 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,027 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,027 of 22,440
- MA personnel rank #114 of 326
- 4.00 stations per 100 personnel
- 47 other listed departments in Essex County
Rockport Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
50 Top 18% higher than 82% 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 09252 · Rockport Fire Department, MA 50 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 50
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #4,027
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Carrsville Volunt…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Carrsville Volunteer Fire Department, VA (+ 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 MA department.
- Rockport (this dept) 50
- High Thetford Voluntee…, VT 50
- Near Carrsville Volunt…, VA 50
- Near Churchill-Five Fo…, NC 50
- Near Saint Maries Fire…, ID 50
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Rockport, MA
- County
- Essex County
- FDID
- 09252
Staffing vs the Massachusetts average
How Rockport Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Massachusetts. In-state it ranks #114 of 326 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,027 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 51
- MA departments
- 568
County roster fringe
Rockport Fire Department is 2.5% of Essex County roster mass
The county lists 55 departments totaling 1,997 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 80% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 50 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Carrsville Volunteer Fire Department, VA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 50 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MA department.