Department profile

Volunteer

Litchfield Township Volunteer Fire Company

Athens, PA · Bradford County. Litchfield Township Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 58 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

58
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Litchfield Township Volunteer Fire Company pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Pennsylvania average.

Top 13%
national personnel size
+66%
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
PlainFireData Composite Score
93/100
Litchfield Township Volunteer Fire Company

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 A
58 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
58 personnel · 1 station

Litchfield Township Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Athens, PA (Bradford County), with 1 station and 58 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,837 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,837 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #292 of 1,275
  • 1.72 stations per 100 personnel
  • 20 other listed departments in Bradford County

Litchfield Township Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

58 Top 13% higher than 87% 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 08026 · Litchfield Township Volunteer Fire Company, PA 58 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 58
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #2,837
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Locke Township Fi…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Locke Township Fire Department Incorporated, NC (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Athens, PA
FDID
08026

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Litchfield Township Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #292 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,837 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 66% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

Litchfield Township Volunteer Fire Company is 4.7% of Bradford County roster mass

The county lists 28 departments totaling 1,245 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 7% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

1.72 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 58 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Locke Township Fire Department Incorporated, NC (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 58 personnel

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