Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Gerry Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated

Gerry, NY · Chautauqua County. Gerry Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 120 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.

120
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Gerry Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the New York average.

Top 3%
national personnel size
+186%
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
PlainFireData Composite Score
100/100
Gerry Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated

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
120 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
120 personnel · 1 station

Gerry Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated is a Volunteer department serving Gerry, NY (Chautauqua County), with 1 station and 120 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #672 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #672 of 22,440
  • NY personnel rank #107 of 1,368
  • 0.83 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 38 other listed departments in Chautauqua County

Gerry Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated vs. the national personnel distribution

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

120 Top 3% higher than 97% 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 07021 · Gerry Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated, NY 120 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MID 120
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #672
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Community Fire Co…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Community Fire Company of Rising Sun, MD (+ 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 NY department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Gerry, NY
FDID
07021

Staffing vs the New York average

How Gerry Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #107 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #672 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 186% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
150
NY departments
2,253

County roster fringe

Gerry Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated is 6.1% of Chautauqua County roster mass

The county lists 49 departments totaling 1,973 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 98% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

0.83 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 120 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Community Fire Company of Rising Sun, MD (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 120 personnel

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