Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderWaterboro Fire / Emergency Medical Services
East Waterboro, ME · York County. Waterboro Fire / Emergency Medical Services is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 45 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.
- 45
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Waterboro Fire / Emergency Medical Services pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Maine average.
- Top 23%
- national personnel size
- +114%
- vs. Maine average
- 3
- 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.
Waterboro Fire / Emergency Medical Services is a Volunteer department serving East Waterboro, ME (York County), with 3 stations and 45 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,060 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,060 of 22,440
- ME personnel rank #60 of 290
- 6.67 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 41 other listed departments in York County
Waterboro Fire / Emergency Medical Services vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
45 Top 23% higher than 77% 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 R4990 · Waterboro Fire / Emergency Medical Services, ME 45 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 45
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,060
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Beach Park
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Beach Park Fire Department, IL (+ 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.
- Waterboro Fire /… (this dept) 45
- High Cherryvale, KS 45
- Near Beach Park, IL 45
- Near Bonner Springs, KS 45
- Near Cameron Volunteer, TX 45
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- East Waterboro, ME
- County
- York County
- FDID
- R4990
Staffing vs the Maine average
How Waterboro Fire / Emergency Medical Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maine. In-state it ranks #60 of 290 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,060 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 20
- ME departments
- 497
County roster fringe
Waterboro Fire / Emergency Medical Services is 3.4% of York County roster mass
The county lists 46 departments totaling 1,315 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 50% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
6.67 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 45 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Beach Park Fire Department, IL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 45 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every ME department.