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Highgate, Franklin County

Highgate Volunteer Fire Department

Stations
1
Photographed
1 of 1
Land area
32,657 acres · 51.03 sq mi
Inside the town line
38,443 acres · 60.07 sq mi
Firefighters
26
Department type
Volunteer
FDID
6291
Calls
124 in 2025
Largest call type
37 vehicle accidents in 2025
Station
2996 Route 78, Highgate Center
Officers
Elected by the members

Highgate's line runs out into the water, and 9.03 of the 60.07 square miles inside it are water. The land figure is the Census count; the total is the boundary VCGI draws.

The station

2996 VT Route 78

Highgate FD Photograph by TGG, 2026-08-29
Street address
2996 VT Route 78
Town
Highgate
County
Franklin County
ZIP
05459
Coordinates
44.93807, -73.04687

This station is not in the Vermont E911 site file; we added it by hand, from the town's own records or a photograph of the building. Spotted something wrong? Send a correction.

History

Highgate's volunteers answer fires, crashes, medical calls and alarms, and give mutual aid to neighbouring towns.

  1. 2025

    124 calls, including 37 vehicle accidents, 22 medical calls and 16 fire alarms. After a lot of fundraising the department buys a side-by-side and trailer.

    124 calls that year

Lake Champlain FranklinBerkshireRichfordSheldonSwantonEnosburghSaint Albans TownFairfieldBakersfieldGeorgiaFairfaxFletcherMontgomery Bakersfield Fire Department Inc — 181 Main St N, BakersfieldBerkshire Fire Department — 5948 Berkshire Center Rd, BerkshireEnosburg Fire/Rescue — 83 Sampsonville Rd, EnosburghFairfax James A Field Fire Station — 15 Goodall St, FairfaxFairfield Fire Department Station 2 — 9461 VT Route 36, FairfieldFairfield Town Fire Department — 4964 VT Route 36, FairfieldFranklin Fire & Rescue — 5154 Main St, FranklinGeorgia Fire & Rescue Station — 4134 Ethan Allen Hwy, GeorgiaRichford Fire Department — 48 Main St, RichfordSt. Albans City FD — 32 Lower Welden St, Saint Albans CitySt. Albans Town FD — 428 Lake Rd, Saint Albans TownSheldon Fire Department — 479 Mill St, SheldonSwanton Village Fire Department — 120 1st St, Swanton Highgate Fire Department — 2996 VT Route 78, Highgate Highgate 10 miles
Highgate in Franklin County. Every fire station in the county is marked — 1 here, 13 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.

Contact

Chief
Gary Greenough
Telephone
802-868-4697 ext. 210

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

Sources

Read in October 2026. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.

Not recorded yet

Nothing is written up here for joining, burn permits, budget. 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.

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