Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderBlue Knob Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated
Duncansville, PA · Blair County. Blue Knob Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated is a Volunteer department, 1 station 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
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Blue Knob Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Pennsylvania average.
- Top 13%
- national personnel size
- +60%
- 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.
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.
Blue Knob Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated is a Volunteer department serving Duncansville, PA (Blair County), with 1 station and 56 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,971 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,971 of 22,440
- PA personnel rank #298 of 1,275
- 1.79 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 18 other listed departments in Blair County
Blue Knob Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated 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 07086 · Blue Knob Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated, PA 56 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 56
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,971
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Edgartown
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Edgartown Fire Department, MA (+ 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.
- Blue Knob Volunte… (this dept) 56
- High Oak Bluffs, MA 56
- Near Edgartown, MA 56
- Near Panama, NY 56
- Near Verona, NJ 56
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Duncansville, PA
- County
- Blair County
- FDID
- 07086
Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average
How Blue Knob Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #298 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,971 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
Blue Knob Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated 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.
1.79 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 56 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Edgartown Fire Department, MA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 56 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every PA department.