Department profile
VolunteerHickory Township Volunteer Fire Department
New Castle, PA · Lawrence County. Hickory Township Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 40 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 40
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Hickory Township Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the Pennsylvania average.
- Top 27%
- national personnel size
- +14%
- 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.
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.
Hickory Township Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving New Castle, PA (Lawrence County), with 2 stations and 40 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #6,063 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #6,063 of 22,440
- PA personnel rank #625 of 1,275
- 5.00 stations per 100 personnel
- 21 other listed departments in Lawrence County
Hickory Township Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
40 Top 27% higher than 73% 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 37003 · Hickory Township Volunteer Fire Department, PA 40 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 40
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #6,063
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Northeast Lamar F…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Northeast Lamar Fire-Rescue and Emergency Medical Services, MS (+ 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.
- Hickory Township… (this dept) 40
- High Laurelville, OH 40
- Near Northeast Lamar F…, MS 40
- Near Ridgeway Voluntee…, NY 40
- Near Bellingham, MN 40
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- New Castle, PA
- County
- Lawrence County
- FDID
- 37003
Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average
How Hickory Township Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #625 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #6,063 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 115
- PA departments
- 2,427
County roster fringe
Hickory Township Volunteer Fire Department is 6.0% of Lawrence County roster mass
The county lists 25 departments totaling 668 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 48% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 40 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Northeast Lamar Fire-Rescue and Emergency Medical Services, MS (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 40 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every PA department.