Department profile

Volunteer

Martindale Volunteer Fire Company

Ephrata, PA · Lancaster County. Martindale Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 63 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

63
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

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

Top 11%
national personnel size
+80%
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
94/100
Martindale 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
63 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
63 personnel · 1 station

Martindale Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Ephrata, PA (Lancaster County), with 1 station and 63 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,378 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,378 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #220 of 1,275
  • 1.59 stations per 100 personnel
  • 54 other listed departments in Lancaster County

Martindale Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

63 Top 11% higher than 89% 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 36310 · Martindale Volunteer Fire Company, PA 63 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MID 63
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #2,378
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Woodbury Fire Dep…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Woodbury Fire Department / Highland Mills Fire Company, 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
Ephrata, PA
FDID
36310

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Martindale Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #220 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,378 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 80% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

Martindale Volunteer Fire Company is 1.7% of Lancaster County roster mass

The county lists 81 departments totaling 3,798 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 84% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

1.59 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 63 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Woodbury Fire Department / Highland Mills Fire Company, NY (+0 personnel).

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

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