Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Shelburne Falls Fire and Rescue

Shelburne, MA · Franklin County. Shelburne Falls Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 30 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.

30
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Shelburne Falls Fire and Rescue pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the Massachusetts average.

Top 48%
national personnel size
-14%
vs. Massachusetts 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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
67/100
Shelburne Falls Fire and Rescue

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 B
30 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
30 personnel · 1 station

Shelburne Falls Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Shelburne, MA (Franklin County), with 1 station and 30 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #10,708 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #10,708 of 22,440
  • MA personnel rank #238 of 326
  • 3.33 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 29 other listed departments in Franklin County

Shelburne Falls Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

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

30 Top 48% higher than 52% 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 11989 · Shelburne Falls Fire and Rescue, MA 30 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 30
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #10,708
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Scotland
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Scotland Fire Department, SD (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Shelburne, MA
FDID
11989

Staffing vs the Massachusetts average

How Shelburne Falls Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Massachusetts. In-state it ranks #238 of 326 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #10,708 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 14% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
51
MA departments
568

County roster fringe

Shelburne Falls Fire and Rescue is 4.6% of Franklin County roster mass

The county lists 35 departments totaling 655 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 77% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 30 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Scotland Fire Department, SD (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

Bernardston Fire Department
Bernardston · volunteer
Buckland Fire Department
Shelburne Falls · volunteer
Colrain Fire Department
Colrain · volunteer
Conway Fire Department
Conway · volunteer
Erving Center Fire
Erving · volunteer
Erving Side Fire Department
Erving · other
Gill Fire Department
Gill · volunteer
All MA departments →

Nationwide volunteer peers near 30 personnel

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