Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderOley Fire Company and Ambulance Service
Oley, PA · Berks County. Oley Fire Company and Ambulance Service is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 42 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.
- 42
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Oley Fire Company and Ambulance Service pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Pennsylvania average.
- Top 25%
- national personnel size
- +20%
- vs. Pennsylvania average
- 1
- station
- $1,145,222
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Oley Fire Company and Ambulance Service is a Volunteer department serving Oley, PA (Berks County), with 1 station and 42 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,562 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,145,222.
- National personnel rank #5,562 of 22,440
- PA personnel rank #584 of 1,275
- 2.38 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 46 other listed departments in Berks County
Oley Fire Company and Ambulance Service 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 06005 · Oley Fire Company and Ambulance Service, PA 42 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 42
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,562
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Clarkston Fire Se…
- FEMA-MID $1.1M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Clarkston Fire Service Area, MT (+ 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.
- Oley Fire Company… (this dept) 42
- High Somerset, MA 42
- Near Clarkston Fire Se…, MT 42
- Near Throop Volunteer, NY 42
- Near North Shelby Coun…, AL 42
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Oley, PA
- County
- Berks County
- FDID
- 06005
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | EMW-2023-FG-01850 | $611,563.63 |
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FG-02620 | $533,658 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average
How Oley Fire Company and Ambulance Service's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #584 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,562 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 115
- PA departments
- 2,427
County roster fringe
Oley Fire Company and Ambulance Service is 1.5% of Berks County roster mass
The county lists 73 departments totaling 2,857 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 10% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.38 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 42 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Clarkston Fire Service Area, MT (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 42 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every PA department.