Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Dunkirk Fire Department

Dunkirk, NY · Chautauqua County. Dunkirk Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 3 stations 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
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Dunkirk Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount well above the New York average.

Top 7%
national personnel size
+81%
vs. New York average
3
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
55/100
Dunkirk 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 C
25.3 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 · 3 stations

Dunkirk Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Dunkirk, NY (Chautauqua County), with 3 stations and 76 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,617 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #1,617 of 22,440
  • NY personnel rank #272 of 1,368
  • 3.95 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 38 other listed departments in Chautauqua County

Dunkirk 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 07011 · Dunkirk Fire Department, NY 76 personnel · 3 stations

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

  • PERS-MID 76
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Avondale
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Avondale Fire Department, AZ (+ 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 NY department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Dunkirk, NY
FDID
07011

Staffing vs the New York average

How Dunkirk Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #272 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,617 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 81% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
150
NY departments
2,253

County roster fringe

Dunkirk Fire Department is 3.9% of Chautauqua County roster mass

The county lists 49 departments totaling 1,973 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 98% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.95 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 76 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Avondale Fire Department, AZ (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 76 personnel

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