Department profile
VolunteerBaden Volunteer Fire Department
Baden, PA · Beaver County. Baden Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 44 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 44
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Baden Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Pennsylvania average.
- Top 23%
- national personnel size
- +26%
- vs. Pennsylvania average
- 1
- station
- $706,478
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Baden Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Baden, PA (Beaver County), with 1 station and 44 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,087 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $706,478.
- National personnel rank #5,087 of 22,440
- PA personnel rank #551 of 1,275
- 2.27 stations per 100 personnel
- 49 other listed departments in Beaver County
Baden Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
44 Top 23% higher than 77% 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 04047 · Baden Volunteer Fire Department, PA 44 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 44
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #5,087
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Pine-Strawberry
- FEMA-MID $706K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Pine-Strawberry Fire Department, AZ (+ 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.
- Baden Volunteer (this dept) 44
- High City of Douglas, GA 44
- Near Pine-Strawberry, AZ 44
- Near Siloam Springs, AR 44
- Near United States For…, MI 44
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Baden, PA
- County
- Beaver County
- FDID
- 04047
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FG-05282 | $182,161.9 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FF-00979 | $109,020 |
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FG-05176 | $486,782 |
| 2007 | EMW2006FF04209 | $-35,743 |
| 2006 | EMW-2006-FF-0420 | $-35,743 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average
How Baden Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #551 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,087 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 115
- PA departments
- 2,427
County roster fringe
Baden Volunteer Fire Department is 3.7% of Beaver County roster mass
The county lists 58 departments totaling 1,205 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 50% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.27 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 44 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Pine-Strawberry Fire Department, AZ (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 44 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every PA department.