Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderChester Bureau of Fire
Chester, PA · Delaware County. Chester Bureau of Fire is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 67 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.
- 67
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Chester Bureau of Fire pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount well above the Pennsylvania average.
- Top 9%
- national personnel size
- +91%
- vs. Pennsylvania average
- 2
- stations
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.
Chester Bureau of Fire is a Career (Paid) department serving Chester, PA (Delaware County), with 2 stations and 67 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,079 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,079 of 22,440
- PA personnel rank #178 of 1,275
- 2.99 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 58 other listed departments in Delaware County
Chester Bureau of Fire vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
67 Top 9% higher than 91% 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 23081 · Chester Bureau of Fire, PA 67 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 67
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #2,079
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Brooklyn Fire and…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Brooklyn Fire and Emergency Medical Services Protection District, WI (+ 0 personnel)
Career/paid 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.
- Chester Bureau of… (this dept) 67
- High Nampa, ID 67
- Near Brooklyn Fire and…, WI 67
- Near Worcester County, MD 67
- Near Hackettstown, NJ 67
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Chester, PA
- County
- Delaware County
- FDID
- 23081
Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average
How Chester Bureau of Fire's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #178 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,079 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
Chester Bureau of Fire is 1.9% of Delaware County roster mass
The county lists 71 departments totaling 3,474 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 65% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.99 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 67 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Brooklyn Fire and Emergency Medical Services Protection District, WI (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 67 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every PA department.