Established in 1948, Hartland's department works from Station One at Three Corners and Station Two in North Hartland. Crashes are its most common call.
1948
The Hartland Volunteer Fire Department is established.
2023
Calls for the year.
174 calls that year
2024
Calls for the year.
150 calls that year
2025
Three members earn Firefighter I, both stations switch to propane heat, and the department holds its second cornhole tournament. Chief John Sanders announces that Scott Bowers, the town fire warden, will take over as chief.
226 calls that year
Calls
Crashes were 66 of 2025's 226 calls.
Calls by year
1742023
1502024
2262025
Calendar years, as the town reports print them.
Calls by type, 2025
Motor vehicle crashes66
Structure and chimney fires34
Brush fires and illegal burns34
Other30
Fire alarms19
Public and medical assists18
Down power lines15
Spills, leaks and odors6
Vehicle fires4
The types add up to the 226 calls reported.
Hartland in Windsor County. Every fire station in the county is marked —
2 here, 26 in neighbouring towns, which is
who turns out on a mutual aid call.
Boundaries and water from VCGI; fire district lines are not town lines, and
village districts and contracted coverage cross them. A town line runs out into
the lake, so the shoreline here is the water drawn over the boundary, not the
boundary itself.
Money
The fire department is a line in the town budget.
Fiscal year 2027 (proposed)
Truck and equipment maintenance
$32,350
Turnout gear
$17,500
Chief's stipend
$12,000
New equipment
$12,000
The largest lines of $133,600 proposed. Fiscal 2026's budget is $122,000. In fiscal 2025, $177,193 was spent against $92,000 budgeted, including $54,430 of new equipment.
Equipment reserve
Yearly appropriation
$68,000
The town's Fire Department Equipment Reserve.
Working here
The department is 100% volunteer and always looking for volunteers. Contact any officer.
Business meeting first Thursday, drills third Thursday, 7 pm, at Station 1
In an emergency dial 911. These are business lines.
Burning
Vermont requires a Permit to Kindle Fire from the town’s Forest Fire Warden for anything larger than a campfire — except where snow covers the ground at the burn site, or the fire is at least 200 feet from anything that will carry flame. Wardens can suspend burning outright when fire danger is high. Who to ask locally is recorded department by department; where it is blank below, the fire department itself is the place to start.
For residents
Burn permitsRequired year-round, even with snow on the ground, from a fire officer or the town office.
Read in October 2026. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.
Not recorded yet
Nothing is written up here for burn permits.
Not because it does not exist — because nobody has typed it in. If you know this
department, tell us and it goes on the record with its
source named.