Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderElma Volunteer Fire Company
Elma, NY · Erie County. Elma Volunteer Fire Company is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 35 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.
- 35
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Elma Volunteer Fire Company pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount below the New York average.
- Top 35%
- national personnel size
- -17%
- vs. New York 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.
Elma Volunteer Fire Company is a Career (Paid) department serving Elma, NY (Erie County), with 1 station and 35 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,747 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #7,747 of 22,440
- NY personnel rank #1,007 of 1,368
- 2.86 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 99 other listed departments in Erie County
Elma Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
35 Top 35% higher than 65% 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 15031 · Elma Volunteer Fire Company, NY 35 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 35
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #7,747
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Seaside Park Volu…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Seaside Park Volunteer Fire Department, NJ (+ 0 personnel)
Career/paid 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.
- Elma Volunteer Fi… (this dept) 35
- High Edisto Beach, SC 35
- Near Seaside Park Volu…, NJ 35
- Near Artesia Fire and…, NM 35
- Near Vale Volunteer, SD 35
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Elma, NY
- County
- Erie County
- FDID
- 15031
Staffing vs the New York average
How Elma Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #1,007 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,747 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 150
- NY departments
- 2,253
County roster fringe
Elma Volunteer Fire Company is 0.6% of Erie County roster mass
The county lists 128 departments totaling 6,117 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 95% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.86 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 35 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Seaside Park Volunteer Fire Department, NJ (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 35 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NY department.