Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Garden City Fire Company

Wallingford, PA · Delaware County. Garden City Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 95 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.

95
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Garden City Fire Company pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Pennsylvania average.

Top 5%
national personnel size
+171%
vs. Pennsylvania average
1
station
$658,899
FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record

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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
67/100
Garden City 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
95 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 D
$6,936 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
95 personnel · 1 station

Garden City Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Wallingford, PA (Delaware County), with 1 station and 95 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,048 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $658,899.

  • National personnel rank #1,048 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #78 of 1,275
  • 1.05 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 58 other listed departments in Delaware County

Garden City Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

95 Top 5% higher than 95% 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 23065 · Garden City Fire Company, PA 95 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 95
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,048
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Conway
  • FEMA-MID $659K
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Conway Fire Department, AR (+ 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
Wallingford, PA
FDID
23065

FEMA Grant History

$659K
Cumulative funding (FY2009–2020)
3
Awards
Year Award Amount
2020 EMW-2020-FF-01108 $408,900
2019 EMW-2019-FG-05117 $250,000.22
2009 EMW2008FF00396 $-1

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Garden City Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #78 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,048 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 171% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

Garden City Fire Company is 2.7% of Delaware County roster mass

The county lists 71 departments totaling 3,474 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 65% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

1.05 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 95 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Conway Fire Department, AR (+0 personnel).

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 95 personnel

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