Department profile

Career (Paid)

Westover Air Reserve Base Fire Department-Dod

Chicopee, MA · Hampden County. Westover Air Reserve Base Fire Department-Dod is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 62 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

62
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Not reported
EMS service

The verdict

Westover Air Reserve Base Fire Department-Dod pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Massachusetts average.

Top 11%
national personnel size
+77%
vs. Massachusetts 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
93/100
Westover Air Reserve Base Fire Department-Dod

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
62 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
62 personnel · 1 station

Westover Air Reserve Base Fire Department-Dod is a Career (Paid) department serving Chicopee, MA (Hampden County), with 1 station and 62 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,482 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,482 of 22,440
  • MA personnel rank #64 of 326
  • 1.61 stations per 100 personnel
  • 28 other listed departments in Hampden County

Westover Air Reserve Base Fire Department-Dod vs. the national personnel distribution

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

62 Top 11% higher than 89% 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 F2011 · Westover Air Reserve Base Fire Department-Dod, MA 62 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-UNK · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-MID 62
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-UNK EMS pending
  • RANK-UPPER #2,482
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Burbank
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Burbank Fire Department, IL (+ 0 personnel)

Career/paid 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 MA department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Chicopee, MA
FDID
F2011

Staffing vs the Massachusetts average

How Westover Air Reserve Base Fire Department-Dod's personnel count compares to the typical department in Massachusetts. In-state it ranks #64 of 326 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,482 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 77% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
51
MA departments
568

County roster fringe

Westover Air Reserve Base Fire Department-Dod is 4.3% of Hampden County roster mass

The county lists 36 departments totaling 1,431 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 81% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

1.61 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 62 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Burbank Fire Department, IL (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide career peers near 62 personnel

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