Department profile
VolunteerVan Buren Fire Department
Van Buren, ME · Aroostook County. Van Buren Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 43 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 43
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Van Buren Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Maine average.
- Top 24%
- national personnel size
- +105%
- 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.
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.
Van Buren Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Van Buren, ME (Aroostook County), with 2 stations and 43 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,399 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,399 of 22,440
- ME personnel rank #63 of 290
- 4.65 stations per 100 personnel
- 27 other listed departments in Aroostook County
Van Buren Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
43 Top 24% higher than 76% 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 B4830 · Van Buren Fire Department, ME 43 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 43
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-UPPER #5,399
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Barnwell
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Barnwell 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.
- Van Buren (this dept) 43
- High Elmwood Volunteer, TX 43
- Near Barnwell, SC 43
- Near Cedar Hill, TX 43
- Near Coulterville Volu…, IL 43
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Van Buren, ME
- County
- Aroostook County
- FDID
- B4830
Staffing vs the Maine average
How Van Buren Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maine. In-state it ranks #63 of 290 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,399 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 20
- ME departments
- 497
County roster fringe
Van Buren Fire Department is 7.3% of Aroostook County roster mass
The county lists 28 departments totaling 592 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 7% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.65 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 43 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Barnwell Fire Department, SC (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 43 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every ME department.