Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Grantville Volunteer Fire Company

Grantville, PA · Dauphin County. Grantville Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 47 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.

47
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Grantville Volunteer Fire Company pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Pennsylvania average.

Top 20%
national personnel size
+34%
vs. Pennsylvania 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
90/100
Grantville Volunteer 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
47 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
47 personnel · 1 station

Grantville Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Grantville, PA (Dauphin County), with 1 station and 47 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,448 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #4,448 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #477 of 1,275
  • 2.13 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 16 other listed departments in Dauphin County

Grantville Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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 22039 · Grantville Volunteer Fire Company, PA 47 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 47
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #4,448
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Newport
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Newport Fire Department, NY (+ 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
Grantville, PA
FDID
22039

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Grantville Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #477 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,448 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 34% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

Grantville Volunteer Fire Company is 3.0% of Dauphin County roster mass

The county lists 38 departments totaling 1,558 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 89% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.13 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 47 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Newport Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 47 personnel

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