Department profile
VolunteerDickerson Run Liberty and Vanderbilt Volunteer Fire Department
Vanderbilt, PA · Fayette County. Dickerson Run Liberty and Vanderbilt Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 70 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 70
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Dickerson Run Liberty and Vanderbilt Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Pennsylvania average.
- Top 8%
- national personnel size
- +100%
- 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.
Dickerson Run Liberty and Vanderbilt Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Vanderbilt, PA (Fayette County), with 1 station and 70 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,903 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,903 of 22,440
- PA personnel rank #158 of 1,275
- 1.43 stations per 100 personnel
- 47 other listed departments in Fayette County
Dickerson Run Liberty and Vanderbilt Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
70 Top 8% higher than 92% 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 26010 · Dickerson Run Liberty and Vanderbilt Volunteer Fire Department, PA 70 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 70
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #1,903
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ East Avon Volunte…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: East Avon Volunteer Fire Department, NY (+ 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.
- Dickerson Run Lib… (this dept) 70
- High Penfield Fire Com…, NY 70
- Near East Avon Volunte…, NY 70
- Near Grafton, MA 70
- Near Cordova Volunteer, AK 70
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Vanderbilt, PA
- County
- Fayette County
- FDID
- 26010
Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average
How Dickerson Run Liberty and Vanderbilt Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #158 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,903 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
Dickerson Run Liberty and Vanderbilt Volunteer Fire Department is 4.4% of Fayette County roster mass
The county lists 54 departments totaling 1,581 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 13% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
1.43 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 70 roster).
Photo-finish peer: East Avon Volunteer Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 70 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every PA department.