Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Chambers Hill Fire Company and Community Association

Harrisburg, PA · Dauphin County. Chambers Hill Fire Company and Community Association is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 23 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.

23
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Chambers Hill Fire Company and Community Association pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Pennsylvania average.

33rd pct.
national personnel size
-34%
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
48/100
Chambers Hill Fire Company and Community Association

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
23 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
23 personnel · 1 station

Chambers Hill Fire Company and Community Association is a Volunteer department serving Harrisburg, PA (Dauphin County), with 1 station and 23 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #14,966 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #14,966 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #1,125 of 1,275
  • 4.35 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 16 other listed departments in Dauphin County

Chambers Hill Fire Company and Community Association vs. the national personnel distribution

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

23 Top 67% higher than 33% 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 22456 · Chambers Hill Fire Company and Community Association, PA 23 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 23
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #14,966
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Stratton Mountain…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Stratton Mountain Volunteer Fire Company, VT (+ 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
Harrisburg, PA
FDID
22456

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Chambers Hill Fire Company and Community Association's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #1,125 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #14,966 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 34% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

Chambers Hill Fire Company and Community Association is 1.5% of Dauphin County roster mass

The county lists 38 departments totaling 1,558 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 89% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

4.35 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 23 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Stratton Mountain Volunteer Fire Company, VT (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 23 personnel

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