Department profile

Volunteer

Bunola Volunteer Fire Company

Bunola, PA · Allegheny County. Bunola Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 36 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

36
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Bunola Volunteer Fire Company pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the Pennsylvania average.

Top 32%
national personnel size
+3%
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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
78/100
Bunola Volunteer Fire Company

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
36 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
36 personnel · 1 station

Bunola Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Bunola, PA (Allegheny County), with 1 station and 36 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,239 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #7,239 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #735 of 1,275
  • 2.78 stations per 100 personnel
  • 165 other listed departments in Allegheny County

Bunola Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

36 Top 32% higher than 68% 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 02156 · Bunola Volunteer Fire Company, PA 36 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 36
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #7,239
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Englewood Cliffs
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Englewood Cliffs Fire Department, NJ (+ 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
Bunola, PA
FDID
02156

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Bunola Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #735 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,239 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 3% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

Bunola Volunteer Fire Company is 0.6% of Allegheny County roster mass

The county lists 201 departments totaling 5,871 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 66% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.78 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 36 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Englewood Cliffs Fire Department, NJ (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 36 personnel

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