Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Northampton Fire Department

Northampton, PA · Northampton County. Northampton Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 75 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.

75
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Northampton Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Pennsylvania average.

Top 8%
national personnel size
+114%
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
96/100
Northampton 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 A
75 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
75 personnel · 1 station

Northampton Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Northampton, PA (Northampton County), with 1 station and 75 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,688 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #1,688 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #137 of 1,275
  • 1.33 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 29 other listed departments in Northampton County

Northampton Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

75 Top 8% higher than 92% 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 48042 · Northampton Fire Department, PA 75 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MID 75
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,688
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Waterford
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Waterford 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
Northampton, PA
FDID
48042

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Northampton Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #137 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,688 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 114% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

Northampton Fire Department is 5.3% of Northampton County roster mass

The county lists 47 departments totaling 1,411 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 64% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

1.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 75 roster).

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

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 75 personnel

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