Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderHershey Volunteer Fire Company
Hershey, PA · Dauphin County. Hershey Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 84 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.
- 84
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Hershey Volunteer Fire Company pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Pennsylvania average.
- Top 6%
- national personnel size
- +140%
- 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 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.
Hershey Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Hershey, PA (Dauphin County), with 1 station and 84 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,340 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,340 of 22,440
- PA personnel rank #109 of 1,275
- 1.19 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 16 other listed departments in Dauphin County
Hershey Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
84 Top 6% higher than 94% 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 22048 · Hershey Volunteer Fire Company, PA 84 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 84
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,340
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Chugiak Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Chugiak Volunteer Fire Department, AK (+ 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.
- Hershey Volunteer… (this dept) 84
- High Grand Junction, CO 84
- Near Chugiak Volunteer, AK 84
- Near Harrison Township, IN 84
- Near City of Ann Arbor, MI 84
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Hershey, PA
- County
- Dauphin County
- FDID
- 22048
Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average
How Hershey Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #109 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,340 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 115
- PA departments
- 2,427
County roster fringe
Hershey Volunteer Fire Company is 5.4% 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.
1.19 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 84 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Chugiak Volunteer Fire Department, AK (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 84 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every PA department.