Department profile
VolunteerCentre Square Fire Company
Blue Bell, PA · Montgomery County. Centre Square Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 71 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 71
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Centre Square Fire Company pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Pennsylvania average.
- Top 8%
- national personnel size
- +103%
- vs. Pennsylvania average
- 2
- stations
- $766,030
- 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.
Centre Square Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Blue Bell, PA (Montgomery County), with 2 stations and 71 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,834 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $766,030.
- National personnel rank #1,834 of 22,440
- PA personnel rank #149 of 1,275
- 2.82 stations per 100 personnel
- 63 other listed departments in Montgomery County
Centre Square Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
71 Top 8% higher than 92% 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 46146 · Centre Square Fire Company, PA 71 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 71
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-TOP #1,834
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ McEntire Air Nati…
- FEMA-MID $766K
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: McEntire Air National Guard Fire Department-Dod, SC (+ 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.
- Centre Square Fir… (this dept) 71
- High Rutland, OH 71
- Near McEntire Air Nati…, SC 71
- Near Providence Townsh…, OH 71
- Near Kuparuk, AK 71
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Blue Bell, PA
- County
- Montgomery County
- FDID
- 46146
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FF-00598 | $432,300 |
| 2020 | EMW-2020-FF-00293 | $283,580 |
| 2013 | EMW2012FF00240 | $50,150 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average
How Centre Square Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #149 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,834 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 115
- PA departments
- 2,427
County roster fringe
Centre Square Fire Company is 1.6% of Montgomery County roster mass
The county lists 94 departments totaling 4,441 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 49% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.82 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 71 roster).
Photo-finish peer: McEntire Air National Guard Fire Department-Dod, SC (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 71 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every PA department.