Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderBethlehem City Fire Department - Schweder Station
Bethlehem, PA · Northampton County. Bethlehem City Fire Department - Schweder Station is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 139 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.
- 139
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Bethlehem City Fire Department - Schweder Station pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Pennsylvania average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +297%
- vs. Pennsylvania average
- 5
- 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.
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.
Bethlehem City Fire Department - Schweder Station is a Career (Paid) department serving Bethlehem, PA (Northampton County), with 5 stations and 139 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #487 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #487 of 22,440
- PA personnel rank #30 of 1,275
- 3.60 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 29 other listed departments in Northampton County
Bethlehem City Fire Department - Schweder Station vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
139 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 48010 · Bethlehem City Fire Department - Schweder Station, PA 139 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 139
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #487
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Holyoke
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Holyoke Fire Department, MA (+ 0 personnel)
Career/paid 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.
- High Ballston Spa Fire…, NY 140
- Bethlehem City Fi… (this dept) 139
- Near Holyoke, MA 139
- Near Howard County, MD 139
- Near Franklin, TN 139
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Bethlehem, PA
- County
- Northampton County
- FDID
- 48010
Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average
How Bethlehem City Fire Department - Schweder Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #30 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #487 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 115
- PA departments
- 2,427
County roster fringe
Bethlehem City Fire Department - Schweder Station is 9.9% of Northampton County roster mass
The county lists 47 departments totaling 1,411 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 64% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.60 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 139 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Holyoke Fire Department, MA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 139 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every PA department.