Department profile

Volunteer

Tremont Volunteer Fire Department - Bass Harbor Station

Bass Harbor, ME · Hancock County. Tremont Volunteer Fire Department - Bass Harbor Station is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 31 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

31
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Tremont Volunteer Fire Department - Bass Harbor Station pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Maine average.

Top 44%
national personnel size
+48%
vs. Maine 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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
23/100
Tremont Volunteer Fire Department - Bass Harbor Station

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 D
15.5 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
31 personnel · 2 stations

Tremont Volunteer Fire Department - Bass Harbor Station is a Volunteer department serving Bass Harbor, ME (Hancock County), with 2 stations and 31 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #9,774 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #9,774 of 22,440
  • ME personnel rank #126 of 290
  • 6.45 stations per 100 personnel
  • 39 other listed departments in Hancock County

Tremont Volunteer Fire Department - Bass Harbor Station vs. the national personnel distribution

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

31 Top 44% higher than 56% 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 E4750 · Tremont Volunteer Fire Department - Bass Harbor Station, ME 31 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 31
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-MID #9,774
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Andrews City
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Andrews City Fire Department, SC (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Bass Harbor, ME
FDID
E4750

Staffing vs the Maine average

How Tremont Volunteer Fire Department - Bass Harbor Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maine. In-state it ranks #126 of 290 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,774 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 48% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
20
ME departments
497

County roster fringe

Tremont Volunteer Fire Department - Bass Harbor Station is 4.2% of Hancock County roster mass

The county lists 44 departments totaling 740 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 27% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.45 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 31 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Andrews City Fire Department, SC (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 31 personnel

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