Vermont Fire Departmentsfdvermont.org

Rochester, Windsor County

Rochester Volunteer Fire Department

Stations
1
Photographed
0 of 1
Land area
36,381 acres · 56.84 sq mi
Firefighters
26
Department type
Volunteer
FDID
23422
Staffing
All volunteer: 26 members including 1 junior (2025); half are in their 60s
Station
Built in 2013
First response
A first response and rescue team since 16 October 2025, with White River Valley Ambulance
Chief
Terry Severy

The station

24 Peavine Dr

No photograph yet.

If you have a picture of this station, send it in — it will be credited to you.

Street address
24 Peavine Dr
Town
Rochester
County
Windsor County
ZIP
05767
Coordinates
43.87712, -72.80783
E911 site ID
202390
E911 first mapped
1998-01-01
E911 last updated
2023-01-27

Location from the Vermont E911 site file (VCGI). Spotted something wrong? Send a correction.

History

Rochester's volunteers meet twice a month, once to plan and once to train and work on the trucks. The Easter pancake breakfast is their biggest fundraiser.

  1. 2013

    The current fire station is built.

  2. 2023

    Members drill with Killington Rescue, State Police and a trail group for rescues on the Velomont Trail.

    45 calls that year

  3. 2024

    Donations from a fundraising letter buy new jaws of life and cordless tools; less than a week after training, members use them at a call.

    45 calls that year

  4. 2025

    Calls rise 18%. In October the department starts a first response and rescue team, which answers 12 calls in its first six weeks.

    54 calls that year

Calls

Crashes and alarms lead, with house and chimney fires a steady share.

Calls by type, 2025
  • Motor vehicle crashes 12
  • Fire alarms 8
  • Mutual aid 6
  • House fires 5
  • False alarms 4
  • Chimney fires 3
  • Auto fires 3
  • Downed power lines 3
  • Search and rescue 3
  • Carbon monoxide 2
  • Trees down 2
  • DHART helicopter 2
  • Brush fire 1

Calendar 2025; the types add up to the 54 calls reported.

BethelRoyaltonSharonStockbridgeNorwichBarnardHartfordBridgewaterHartlandPlymouthReadingWindsorWestonAndoverSpringfieldPomfretWoodstockChesterCavendishWeathersfieldLudlow Barnard Fire Station — 117 North Rd, BarnardBarnard Fire Station — 5458 Broad Brook Rd, BarnardBethel Fire Station — 587 Pleasant St, BethelBridgewater Fire Station — 28 Southgate Loop, BridgewaterCavendish Fire Station — 148 Mill St, CavendishCavendish Fire Station — 2154 Main St, CavendishCavendish Fire Station — 513 Main St, CavendishChester Fire Station — 716 Depot St, ChesterHartford Fire Station — 131 Willard Rd, HartfordHartford Fire Station — 812 Va Cutoff Rd, HartfordHartland Fire Station — 3 Clay Hill Rd, HartlandHartland Fire Station — 57 VT Route 12, HartlandLudlow Fire Station — 67 Pond St, LudlowNorwich Fire Station — 11 Firehouse Ln, NorwichPomfret Fire Station — 2026 Pomfret Rd, PomfretPomfret Fire Station — 7373 Pomfret Rd, PomfretReading Fire Station — 1688 VT Route 106, ReadingRoyalton Fire Station — 53 Safford St, RoyaltonSharon Fire Station — 5808 VT Route 14, SharonSpringfield Fire Station — 77 Hartness Ave, SpringfieldWeathersfield Fire Station — 540 VT Route 131, WeathersfieldWeathersfield Fire Station — 7259 VT Route 131, WeathersfieldWest Windsor Fire Station — 889 VT Route 44, West WindsorWeston Fire Station — 734 Main St, WestonWindsor Fire Station — 29 Union St, WindsorWoodstock Fire Station — 25 Morgan Hill Rd, WoodstockWoodstock Fire Station — 454 Woodstock Rd, Woodstock Rochester Fire Station — 24 Peavine Dr, Rochester Rochester 10 miles
Rochester in Windsor County. Every fire station in the county is marked — 1 here, 27 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 budget is modest: $63,200 proposed for fiscal 2027, plus $11,800 for the new rescue team.

Fiscal year 2027, as proposed
Salaries $10,000
Supplies and repair $8,000
Property and auto insurance $7,500
Bunker gear $7,000
Hoses $4,000
Radios and pagers $4,000

The largest lines in the town's fire department budget.

Fire department expenses, by year
FY2027, proposed $63,200
FY2026, budget $58,350
FY2025, actual $90,473
FY2025, budget $58,050

FY2025 ran over on truck maintenance: $44,871 against $2,500 budgeted.

Contact

Chief
Terry Severy
Telephone
(802) 767-1136
Website
rochestervermont.org/rfd/

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. 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.

← Back to the map