Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Holmes Fire Company

Holmes, PA · Delaware County. Holmes Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 90 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.

90
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Holmes Fire Company pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Pennsylvania average.

Top 5%
national personnel size
+157%
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
100/100
Holmes 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
90 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
90 personnel · 1 station

Holmes Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Holmes, PA (Delaware County), with 1 station and 90 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,163 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #1,163 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #90 of 1,275
  • 1.11 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 58 other listed departments in Delaware County

Holmes Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

90 Top 5% higher than 95% 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 23043 · Holmes Fire Company, PA 90 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MID 90
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,163
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Clayton Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Clayton 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
Holmes, PA
FDID
23043

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Holmes Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #90 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,163 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 157% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

Holmes Fire Company is 2.6% of Delaware County roster mass

The county lists 71 departments totaling 3,474 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 65% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

1.11 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 90 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Clayton Volunteer 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 90 personnel

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