Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Allegheny Township Fire Department

Duncansville, PA · Blair County. Allegheny Township Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 56 total personnel. The department also provides EMS services. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

56
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Allegheny Township Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Pennsylvania average.

Top 13%
national personnel size
+60%
vs. Pennsylvania average
2
stations

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
Allegheny Township 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
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
56 personnel · 2 stations

Allegheny Township Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Duncansville, PA (Blair County), with 2 stations and 56 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,961 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,961 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #296 of 1,275
  • 3.57 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 18 other listed departments in Blair County

Allegheny Township Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

56 Top 13% higher than 87% 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 07050 · Allegheny Township Fire Department, PA 56 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 56
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #2,961
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Panama
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Panama Fire Department, NY (+ 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
Duncansville, PA
FDID
07050

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Allegheny Township Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #296 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,961 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 60% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

Allegheny Township Fire Department is 6.8% of Blair County roster mass

The county lists 26 departments totaling 829 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 88% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.57 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 56 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Panama Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 56 personnel

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