Department profile

Volunteer

Alburtis Volunteer Fire Department

Alburtis, PA · Lehigh County. Alburtis Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 28 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

28
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Alburtis Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount below the Pennsylvania average.

Top 50%
national personnel size
-20%
vs. Pennsylvania 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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
62/100
Alburtis Volunteer Fire Department

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 B
28 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
28 personnel · 1 station

Alburtis Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Alburtis, PA (Lehigh County), with 1 station and 28 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #11,293 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #11,293 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #985 of 1,275
  • 3.57 stations per 100 personnel
  • 32 other listed departments in Lehigh County

Alburtis Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

28 Top 50% higher than 50% 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 39001 · Alburtis Volunteer Fire Department, PA 28 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 28
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-MID #11,293
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Baker Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Baker Volunteer Fire Department, MT (+ 0 personnel)

Volunteer 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 PA department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Alburtis, PA
FDID
39001

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Alburtis Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #985 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #11,293 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 20% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

Alburtis Volunteer Fire Department is 2.5% of Lehigh County roster mass

The county lists 42 departments totaling 1,104 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 69% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.57 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 28 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Baker Volunteer Fire Department, MT (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 28 personnel

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