Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Elizabeth Volunteer Fire Company

Elizabeth, PA · Allegheny County. Elizabeth Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 40 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.

40
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Elizabeth Volunteer Fire Company pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the Pennsylvania average.

Top 27%
national personnel size
+14%
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
83/100
Elizabeth Volunteer Fire Company

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
40 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
40 personnel · 1 station

Elizabeth Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Elizabeth, PA (Allegheny County), with 1 station and 40 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,989 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #5,989 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #613 of 1,275
  • 2.50 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 165 other listed departments in Allegheny County

Elizabeth Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

40 Top 27% higher than 73% 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 02139 · Elizabeth Volunteer Fire Company, PA 40 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 40
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #5,989
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Brooklyn Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Brooklyn Volunteer Fire Department, AL (+ 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
Elizabeth, PA
FDID
02139

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Elizabeth Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #613 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,989 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 14% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

Elizabeth Volunteer Fire Company is 0.7% of Allegheny County roster mass

The county lists 201 departments totaling 5,871 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 66% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.50 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 40 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Brooklyn Volunteer Fire Department, AL (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 40 personnel

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