Department profile
VolunteerIndependent Hose Company
Minersville, PA · Schuylkill County. Independent Hose Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 180 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 180
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Independent Hose Company pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Pennsylvania average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +414%
- 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.
Independent Hose Company is a Volunteer department serving Minersville, PA (Schuylkill County), with 1 station and 180 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #282 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #282 of 22,440
- PA personnel rank #13 of 1,275
- 0.56 stations per 100 personnel
- 51 other listed departments in Schuylkill County
Independent Hose Company vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
180 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 54252 · Independent Hose Company, PA 180 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 180
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #282
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cedarburg Volunte…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Cedarburg Volunteer Fire Department, WI (+ 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.
- Independent Hose… (this dept) 180
- High Trenton Fire and…, NJ 180
- Near Cedarburg Volunte…, WI 180
- Near Salisbury, MD 180
- Near South Amboy Fire…, NJ 180
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Minersville, PA
- County
- Schuylkill County
- FDID
- 54252
Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average
How Independent Hose Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #13 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #282 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
Independent Hose Company is 4.3% of Schuylkill County roster mass
The county lists 100 departments totaling 4,231 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 39% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
0.56 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 180 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Cedarburg Volunteer Fire Department, WI (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 180 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every PA department.