Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

East Whiteland Volunteer Fire Association

Frazer, PA · Chester County. East Whiteland Volunteer Fire Association is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 42 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.

42
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

East Whiteland Volunteer Fire Association pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Pennsylvania average.

Top 24%
national personnel size
+20%
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
85/100
East Whiteland Volunteer Fire Association

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
42 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
42 personnel · 1 station

East Whiteland Volunteer Fire Association is a Volunteer department serving Frazer, PA (Chester County), with 1 station and 42 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,479 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #5,479 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #572 of 1,275
  • 2.38 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 32 other listed departments in Chester County

East Whiteland Volunteer Fire Association vs. the national personnel distribution

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

42 Top 24% higher than 76% 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 15005 · East Whiteland Volunteer Fire Association, PA 42 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 42
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #5,479
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Boston Volunteer…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Boston Volunteer Fire Company, 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.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Frazer, PA
FDID
15005

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How East Whiteland Volunteer Fire Association's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #572 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,479 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 20% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

East Whiteland Volunteer Fire Association is 2.4% of Chester County roster mass

The county lists 45 departments totaling 1,719 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 58% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.38 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 42 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Boston Volunteer Fire Company, NY (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 42 personnel

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