Department profile

Volunteer

Grassflat Volunteer Fire Company

Grassflat, PA · Clearfield County. Grassflat Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 65 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

65
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Grassflat Volunteer Fire Company pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount well above the Pennsylvania average.

Top 10%
national personnel size
+86%
vs. Pennsylvania average
1
station
$585,714
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
68/100
Grassflat 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
65 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 D
$9,011 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
65 personnel · 1 station

Grassflat Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Grassflat, PA (Clearfield County), with 1 station and 65 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,209 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $585,714.

  • National personnel rank #2,209 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #195 of 1,275
  • 1.54 stations per 100 personnel
  • 22 other listed departments in Clearfield County

Grassflat Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

65 Top 10% higher than 90% 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 17019 · Grassflat Volunteer Fire Company, PA 65 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MID 65
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-TOP #2,209
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Saint Regis Falls…
  • FEMA-MID $586K
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Saint Regis Falls Volunteer 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
Grassflat, PA
FDID
17019

FEMA Grant History

$586K
Cumulative funding (FY2015–2021)
2
Awards
Year Award Amount
2021 EMW-2021-FG-02890 $285,714.28
2015 EMW2014FV00315 $300,000

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

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Grassflat Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #195 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,209 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 86% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

Grassflat Volunteer Fire Company is 5.1% of Clearfield County roster mass

The county lists 38 departments totaling 1,272 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 47% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

1.54 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 65 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Saint Regis Falls Volunteer Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).

Nationwide volunteer peers near 65 personnel

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