Department profile

Career (Paid)

Elmira-Corning Regional Airport Fire Brigade

Horseheads, NY · Chemung County. Elmira-Corning Regional Airport Fire Brigade is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 14 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

14
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Elmira-Corning Regional Airport Fire Brigade pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the New York average.

8th pct.
national personnel size
-67%
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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
18/100
Elmira-Corning Regional Airport Fire Brigade

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 F
14 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
14 personnel · 1 station

Elmira-Corning Regional Airport Fire Brigade is a Career (Paid) department serving Horseheads, NY (Chemung County), with 1 station and 14 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #20,732 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #20,732 of 22,440
  • NY personnel rank #1,349 of 1,368
  • 7.14 stations per 100 personnel
  • 20 other listed departments in Chemung County

Elmira-Corning Regional Airport Fire Brigade vs. the national personnel distribution

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

14 Top 92% higher than 8% 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 08211 · Elmira-Corning Regional Airport Fire Brigade, NY 14 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MICRO 14
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-LOWER #20,732
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Pimlico Rural Vol…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Pimlico Rural Volunteer Fire Department, SC (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Horseheads, NY
FDID
08211

Staffing vs the New York average

How Elmira-Corning Regional Airport Fire Brigade's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #1,349 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #20,732 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 67% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
150
NY departments
2,253

County roster fringe

Elmira-Corning Regional Airport Fire Brigade is 2.0% of Chemung County roster mass

The county lists 24 departments totaling 701 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 88% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

7.14 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 14 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Pimlico Rural Volunteer Fire Department, SC (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide career peers near 14 personnel

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