Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderSilver Spring Volunteer Fire Department
Silver Spring, MD · Montgomery County. Silver Spring Volunteer Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 116 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.
- 116
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Silver Spring Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount above the Maryland average.
- Top 3%
- national personnel size
- +26%
- vs. Maryland average
- 3
- 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.
Silver Spring Volunteer Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Silver Spring, MD (Montgomery County), with 3 stations and 116 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #725 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #725 of 22,440
- MD personnel rank #27 of 179
- 2.59 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 22 other listed departments in Montgomery County
Silver Spring Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
116 Top 3% higher than 97% 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 MD-SILVER-SPRING-VOLUNTEER-FIRE-DEPARTMENT-MD · Silver Spring Volunteer Fire Department, MD 116 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MID 116
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #725
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Decatur
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Decatur Fire Department, IL (+ 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 MD department.
- Silver Spring Vol… (this dept) 116
- High Vashon Island Fir…, WA 116
- Near Decatur, IL 116
- Near Emporia, KS 116
- Near Round Rock Fire D…, TX 116
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Silver Spring, MD
- County
- Montgomery County
Staffing vs the Maryland average
How Silver Spring Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maryland. In-state it ranks #27 of 179 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #725 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 67
- MD departments
- 379
County roster fringe
Silver Spring Volunteer Fire Department is 3.5% of Montgomery County roster mass
The county lists 24 departments totaling 3,361 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 83% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.59 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 116 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Decatur Fire Department, IL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 116 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MD department.