Department profile
VolunteerChester Township Fire Company
Chester Township, PA · Delaware County. Chester Township Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 50 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 50
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Chester Township Fire Company pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Pennsylvania average.
- Top 17%
- national personnel size
- +43%
- 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 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 Township Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Chester Township, PA (Delaware County), with 1 station and 50 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,829 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,829 of 22,440
- PA personnel rank #400 of 1,275
- 2.00 stations per 100 personnel
- 58 other listed departments in Delaware County
Chester Township Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
50 Top 17% higher than 83% 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 23047 · Chester Township Fire Company, PA 50 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 50
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #3,829
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Mendocino Volunte…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Mendocino Volunteer Fire Department, CA (+ 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.
- Chester Township… (this dept) 50
- High Chaumont Voluntee…, NY 50
- Near Mendocino Volunte…, CA 50
- Near Three Mile Bay Fi…, NY 50
- Near Depauville, NY 50
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Chester Township, PA
- County
- Delaware County
- FDID
- 23047
Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average
How Chester Township Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #400 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,829 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 115
- PA departments
- 2,427
County roster fringe
Chester Township Fire Company is 1.4% 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.
2.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 50 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Mendocino Volunteer Fire Department, CA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 50 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every PA department.