Department profile

Volunteer

Goodwill Fire Company - Hyde Park

Reading, PA · Berks County. Goodwill Fire Company - Hyde Park is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 45 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

45
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Goodwill Fire Company - Hyde Park pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Pennsylvania average.

Top 22%
national personnel size
+29%
vs. Pennsylvania average
2
stations

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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
47/100
Goodwill Fire Company - Hyde Park

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 C
22.5 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
45 personnel · 2 stations

Goodwill Fire Company - Hyde Park is a Volunteer department serving Reading, PA (Berks County), with 2 stations and 45 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,835 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #4,835 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #515 of 1,275
  • 4.44 stations per 100 personnel
  • 46 other listed departments in Berks County

Goodwill Fire Company - Hyde Park vs. the national personnel distribution

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

45 Top 22% higher than 78% 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 06010 · Goodwill Fire Company - Hyde Park, PA 45 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 45
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #4,835
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Advance Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Advance Volunteer Fire Department, IN (+ 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
Reading, PA
FDID
06010

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Goodwill Fire Company - Hyde Park's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #515 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,835 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 29% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

Goodwill Fire Company - Hyde Park is 1.6% of Berks County roster mass

The county lists 73 departments totaling 2,857 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 10% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

4.44 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 45 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Advance Volunteer Fire Department, IN (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 45 personnel

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