Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderHooversville Volunteer Fire Department
Hooversville, PA · Somerset County. Hooversville Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 125 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.
- 125
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Hooversville Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Pennsylvania average.
- Top 3%
- national personnel size
- +257%
- 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.
Hooversville Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Hooversville, PA (Somerset County), with 1 station and 125 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #619 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #619 of 22,440
- PA personnel rank #39 of 1,275
- 0.80 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 27 other listed departments in Somerset County
Hooversville Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
125 Top 3% higher than 97% 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 56614 · Hooversville Volunteer Fire Department, PA 125 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 125
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #619
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Katonah
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Katonah 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.
- Hooversville Volu… (this dept) 125
- High Baker County Fire…, FL 125
- Near Katonah, NY 125
- Near Medford, NY 125
- Near Hauppauge Volunte…, NY 125
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Hooversville, PA
- County
- Somerset County
- FDID
- 56614
Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average
How Hooversville Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #39 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #619 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
Hooversville Volunteer Fire Department is 8.4% of Somerset County roster mass
The county lists 29 departments totaling 1,497 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 69% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
0.80 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 125 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Katonah Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 125 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every PA department.