Department profile
VolunteerAthens Volunteer Fire Department
Athens, NY · Greene County. Athens Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 166 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 166
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Athens Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the New York average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +295%
- vs. New York 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.
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.
Athens Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Athens, NY (Greene County), with 1 station and 166 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #331 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #331 of 22,440
- NY personnel rank #35 of 1,368
- 0.60 stations per 100 personnel
- 24 other listed departments in Greene County
Athens Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
166 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 20002 · Athens Volunteer Fire Department, NY 166 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 166
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #331
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Metro West Fire P…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Metro West Fire Protection District, MO (+ 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 NY department.
- Athens Volunteer (this dept) 166
- High Rural/Metro Fire…, TN 166
- Near Metro West Fire P…, MO 166
- Near Hazleton Heights…, PA 166
- Low Odenton Volunteer, MD 165
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Athens, NY
- County
- Greene County
- FDID
- 20002
Staffing vs the New York average
How Athens Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #35 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #331 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 150
- NY departments
- 2,253
County roster geometry
Greene County HIFLD mix around Athens Volunteer Fire Department
Greene County: 31 departments, 820 personnel (16 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 23% of departments. County / state rollup.
0.60 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 166 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Metro West Fire Protection District, MO (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 166 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NY department.