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.
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.
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.
- Johnstown (this dept) 42
- High South Hill Volunt…, VA 42
- Near Danville Fire Dep…, KY 42
- Near Keys, OK 42
- Near Milford Fire Comp…, NJ 42
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Johnstown, PA
- County
- Cambria County
- 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.
- 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
Nationwide career peers near 42 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every PA department.