Department profile
VolunteerPittstown Volunteer Fire Company
Johnsonville, NY · Rensselaer County. Pittstown Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 50 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 50
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Pittstown Volunteer Fire Company pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the New York average.
- Top 18%
- national personnel size
- +19%
- vs. New York 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 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.
Pittstown Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Johnsonville, NY (Rensselaer County), with 1 station and 50 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,008 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,008 of 22,440
- NY personnel rank #648 of 1,368
- 2.00 stations per 100 personnel
- 42 other listed departments in Rensselaer County
Pittstown Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
50 Top 18% higher than 82% 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 42025 · Pittstown Volunteer Fire Company, NY 50 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 50
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #4,008
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Eldred Borough Vo…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Eldred Borough Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+ 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 NY department.
- Pittstown Volunte… (this dept) 50
- High Bernalillo, NM 50
- Near Eldred Borough Vo…, PA 50
- Near Lena Volunteer, WI 50
- Near Beverly Volunteer, WV 50
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Johnsonville, NY
- County
- Rensselaer County
- FDID
- 42025
Staffing vs the New York average
How Pittstown Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #648 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,008 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 150
- NY departments
- 2,253
County roster fringe
Pittstown Volunteer Fire Company is 2.6% of Rensselaer County roster mass
The county lists 51 departments totaling 1,899 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 71% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 50 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Eldred Borough Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 50 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NY department.