Fire department peer comparison

Pick a Maryland fire department or countywide fire-rescue system to see its five closest peers — plus one slightly smaller and one slightly larger organization — matched on size and operating profile from verified public data.

This is a similarity tool, not a scoreboard. A bigger, richer, or busier department is not “better” — the peer set exists so every comparison is against organizations of similar scale. Countywide systems are never compared with single volunteer companies. Every value is a verified public figure or is shown as “Unknown.”