Department profile
VolunteerHouston Volunteer Fire Department
Houston, PA · Washington County. Houston Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 43 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 43
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Houston Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Pennsylvania average.
- Top 24%
- national personnel size
- +23%
- 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.
Houston Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Houston, PA (Washington County), with 1 station and 43 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,314 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,314 of 22,440
- PA personnel rank #564 of 1,275
- 2.33 stations per 100 personnel
- 47 other listed departments in Washington County
Houston Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
43 Top 24% higher than 76% 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 63065 · Houston Volunteer Fire Department, PA 43 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 43
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-UPPER #5,314
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Dresden Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Dresden 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.
- Houston Volunteer (this dept) 43
- High Jackson, WI 43
- Near Dresden Volunteer, NY 43
- Near Bellona Volunteer, NY 43
- Near McAlester Fire an…, OK 43
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Houston, PA
- County
- Washington County
- FDID
- 63065
Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average
How Houston Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #564 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,314 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
Houston Volunteer Fire Department is 2.8% of Washington County roster mass
The county lists 55 departments totaling 1,519 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 87% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 43 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Dresden Volunteer Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 43 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every PA department.