Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Mar Lin Citizens Hose Company

Mar Lin, PA · Schuylkill County. Mar Lin Citizens Hose Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 52 total personnel. The department also provides EMS services. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

52
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Mar Lin Citizens Hose Company pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Pennsylvania average.

Top 16%
national personnel size
+49%
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
91/100
Mar Lin Citizens Hose 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
52 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
52 personnel · 1 station

Mar Lin Citizens Hose Company is a Volunteer department serving Mar Lin, PA (Schuylkill County), with 1 station and 52 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,610 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #3,610 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #372 of 1,275
  • 1.92 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 51 other listed departments in Schuylkill County

Mar Lin Citizens Hose Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

52 Top 16% higher than 84% 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 54120 · Mar Lin Citizens Hose Company, PA 52 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MID 52
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #3,610
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Campville
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Campville 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Mar Lin, PA
FDID
54120

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Mar Lin Citizens Hose Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #372 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,610 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 49% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

Mar Lin Citizens Hose Company is 1.2% 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.

1.92 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 52 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Campville Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 52 personnel

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