Department profile

Career (Paid)

Johnstown Fire Department

Johnstown, PA · Cambria County. Johnstown Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 42 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

42
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Johnstown Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Pennsylvania average.

Top 25%
national personnel size
+20%
vs. Pennsylvania average
3
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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
18/100
Johnstown Fire Department

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 F
14 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
42 personnel · 3 stations

Johnstown Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Johnstown, PA (Cambria County), with 3 stations and 42 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,519 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #5,519 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #578 of 1,275
  • 7.14 stations per 100 personnel
  • 42 other listed departments in Cambria County

Johnstown Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

42 Top 25% higher than 75% 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 11036 · Johnstown Fire Department, PA 42 personnel · 3 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 42
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #5,519
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Danville Fire Dep…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Danville Fire Department - Central Station, KY (+ 0 personnel)

Career/paid 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
CAREER
Location
Johnstown, PA
FDID
11036

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Johnstown Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #578 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,519 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 20% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

Johnstown Fire Department is 1.8% of Cambria County roster mass

The county lists 53 departments totaling 2,354 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 17% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

7.14 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 42 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Danville Fire Department - Central Station, KY (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

Nearby Departments

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Nationwide career peers near 42 personnel

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