Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Circleville Volunteer Fire Department

North Huntingdon, PA · Westmoreland County. Circleville Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 76 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.

76
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Circleville Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Pennsylvania average.

Top 7%
national personnel size
+117%
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
97/100
Circleville Volunteer Fire Department

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
76 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
76 personnel · 1 station

Circleville Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving North Huntingdon, PA (Westmoreland County), with 1 station and 76 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,610 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #1,610 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #127 of 1,275
  • 1.32 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 88 other listed departments in Westmoreland County

Circleville Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

76 Top 7% higher than 93% 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 65008 · Circleville Volunteer Fire Department, PA 76 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MID 76
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,610
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Louisiana State P…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Louisiana State Penitentiary Fire Department, LA (+ 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
North Huntingdon, PA
FDID
65008

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Circleville Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #127 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,610 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 117% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

Circleville Volunteer Fire Department is 1.8% of Westmoreland County roster mass

The county lists 111 departments totaling 4,157 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 50% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

1.32 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 76 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Louisiana State Penitentiary Fire Department, LA (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 76 personnel

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