Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderSouth Portland Fire Department - Central
South Portland, ME · Cumberland County. South Portland Fire Department - Central is a Volunteer department, 6 stations and 162 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.
- 162
- Total personnel
- 6
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
South Portland Fire Department - Central pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Maine average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +671%
- vs. Maine average
- 6
- stations
- $3,640,083
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
South Portland Fire Department - Central is a Volunteer department serving South Portland, ME (Cumberland County), with 6 stations and 162 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #352 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $3,640,083.
- National personnel rank #352 of 22,440
- ME personnel rank #3 of 290
- 3.70 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 46 other listed departments in Cumberland County
South Portland Fire Department - Central vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
162 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 C0240 · South Portland Fire Department - Central, ME 162 personnel · 6 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 162
- STA-MULTI 6 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #352
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Odessa Fire Depar…
- FEMA-MID $3.6M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Odessa Fire Department - Central Station, TX (+ 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 ME department.
- High Pasadena Volunteer, TX 163
- South Portland Fi… (this dept) 162
- Near Odessa Fire Depar…, TX 162
- Near Boca Raton Fire a…, FL 162
- Near Framingham, MA 162
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- South Portland, ME
- County
- Cumberland County
- FDID
- C0240
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FG-01474 | $167,741.8 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FG-03292 | $200,409.09 |
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FG-02893 | $227,273 |
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FG-03409 | $204,290.01 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FV-01418 | $681,819 |
| 2012 | EMW2012FH00832 | $1,111,188 |
| 2011 | EMW2010FH00982 | $1,047,362 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Maine average
How South Portland Fire Department - Central's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maine. In-state it ranks #3 of 290 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #352 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 6
- State fire deaths/yr
- 20
- ME departments
- 497
County roster fringe
South Portland Fire Department - Central is 8.6% of Cumberland County roster mass
The county lists 59 departments totaling 1,886 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 58% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.70 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (6 stations / 162 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Odessa Fire Department - Central Station, TX (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 162 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every ME department.