Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Trappe Volunteer Fire Company

Trappe, MD · Talbot County. Trappe Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 55 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.

55
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Trappe Volunteer Fire Company pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount below the Maryland average.

Top 15%
national personnel size
-40%
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.

A
PlainFireData Composite Score
92/100
Trappe Volunteer Fire Company

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 A
55 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
55 personnel · 1 station

Trappe Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Trappe, MD (Talbot County), with 1 station and 55 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,280 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #3,280 of 22,440
  • MD personnel rank #111 of 179
  • 1.82 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 6 other listed departments in Talbot County

Trappe Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

55 Top 15% higher than 85% 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 20030 · Trappe Volunteer Fire Company, MD 55 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MID 55
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #3,280
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Townville Volunte…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Townville Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+ 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
Trappe, MD
FDID
20030

Staffing vs the Maryland average

How Trappe Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maryland. In-state it ranks #111 of 179 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,280 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 40% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
67
MD departments
379

County roster geometry

Talbot County HIFLD mix around Trappe Volunteer Fire Company

Talbot County: 8 departments, 382 personnel (5 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 100% of departments. County / state rollup.

1.82 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 55 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Townville Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 55 personnel

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