Department profile

Volunteer

Chatham Volunteer Fire Company

Westfield, PA · Tioga County. Chatham Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 38 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

38
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

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

Top 30%
national personnel size
+9%
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
PlainFireData Composite Score
81/100
Chatham 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 A
38 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
38 personnel · 1 station

Chatham Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Westfield, PA (Tioga County), with 1 station and 38 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #6,683 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #6,683 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #695 of 1,275
  • 2.63 stations per 100 personnel
  • 18 other listed departments in Tioga County

Chatham Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

38 Top 30% higher than 70% 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 59017 · Chatham Volunteer Fire Company, PA 38 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 38
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #6,683
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cedar Grove Volun…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Cedar Grove Volunteer Fire Department, WI (+ 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
Westfield, PA
FDID
59017

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Chatham Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #695 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #6,683 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 9% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

Chatham Volunteer Fire Company is 6.2% of Tioga County roster mass

The county lists 19 departments totaling 615 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 58% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.63 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 38 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Cedar Grove Volunteer Fire Department, WI (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 38 personnel

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