Department profile

Volunteer

Carbon Volunteer Fire Department

Greensburg, PA · Westmoreland County. Carbon Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 24 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

24
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Carbon Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Pennsylvania average.

36th pct.
national personnel size
-31%
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
51/100
Carbon Volunteer Fire Department

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 C
24 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
24 personnel · 1 station

Carbon Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Greensburg, PA (Westmoreland County), with 1 station and 24 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #14,283 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #14,283 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #1,104 of 1,275
  • 4.17 stations per 100 personnel
  • 88 other listed departments in Westmoreland County

Carbon Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

24 Top 64% higher than 36% 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 65023 · Carbon Volunteer Fire Department, PA 24 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 24
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-LOWER #14,283
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ South Mountain
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: South Mountain Fire Department, AR (+ 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
Greensburg, PA
FDID
65023

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Carbon Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #1,104 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #14,283 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 31% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

Carbon Volunteer Fire Department is 0.6% of Westmoreland County roster mass

The county lists 111 departments totaling 4,157 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 50% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

4.17 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 24 roster).

Photo-finish peer: South Mountain Fire Department, AR (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 24 personnel

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