Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Citizens Fire Company - Branchdale

Branchdale, PA · Schuylkill County. Citizens Fire Company - Branchdale is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 105 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.

105
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Citizens Fire Company - Branchdale pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Pennsylvania average.

Top 4%
national personnel size
+200%
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
100/100
Citizens Fire Company - Branchdale

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
105 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
105 personnel · 1 station

Citizens Fire Company - Branchdale is a Volunteer department serving Branchdale, PA (Schuylkill County), with 1 station and 105 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #838 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #838 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #58 of 1,275
  • 0.95 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 51 other listed departments in Schuylkill County

Citizens Fire Company - Branchdale vs. the national personnel distribution

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

105 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 54124 · Citizens Fire Company - Branchdale, PA 105 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MID 105
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #838
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ City of Lawrence
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: City of Lawrence Fire Department, IN (+ 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
Branchdale, PA
FDID
54124

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Citizens Fire Company - Branchdale's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #58 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #838 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 200% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

Citizens Fire Company - Branchdale is 2.5% of Schuylkill County roster mass

The county lists 100 departments totaling 4,231 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 39% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

0.95 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 105 roster).

Photo-finish peer: City of Lawrence Fire Department, IN (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 105 personnel

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