Department profile
VolunteerValley Cottage Fire Department - Lake Road
Valley Cottage, NY · Rockland County. Valley Cottage Fire Department - Lake Road is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 73 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 73
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Valley Cottage Fire Department - Lake Road pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount well above the New York average.
- Top 8%
- national personnel size
- +74%
- vs. New York 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 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.
Valley Cottage Fire Department - Lake Road is a Volunteer department serving Valley Cottage, NY (Rockland County), with 1 station and 73 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,781 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,781 of 22,440
- NY personnel rank #299 of 1,368
- 1.37 stations per 100 personnel
- 21 other listed departments in Rockland County
Valley Cottage Fire Department - Lake Road vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
73 Top 8% higher than 92% 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 44022 · Valley Cottage Fire Department - Lake Road, NY 73 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 73
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #1,781
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Frankford Volunte…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Frankford Volunteer Fire Company, DE (+ 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 NY department.
- Valley Cottage Fi… (this dept) 73
- High Key West Fire Dep…, FL 73
- Near Frankford Volunte…, DE 73
- Near Dagsboro Volunteer, DE 73
- Near Rohnert Park Depa…, CA 73
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Valley Cottage, NY
- County
- Rockland County
- FDID
- 44022
Staffing vs the New York average
How Valley Cottage Fire Department - Lake Road's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #299 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,781 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 150
- NY departments
- 2,253
County roster fringe
Valley Cottage Fire Department - Lake Road is 3.5% of Rockland County roster mass
The county lists 38 departments totaling 2,083 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 18% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
1.37 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 73 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Frankford Volunteer Fire Company, DE (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 73 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NY department.