Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderPort Chester Fire Department
Port Chester, NY · Westchester County. Port Chester Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 4 stations and 312 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.
- 312
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Port Chester Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the New York average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +643%
- vs. New York average
- 4
- stations
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.
Port Chester Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Port Chester, NY (Westchester County), with 4 stations and 312 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #109 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #109 of 22,440
- NY personnel rank #6 of 1,368
- 1.28 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 58 other listed departments in Westchester County
Port Chester Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
312 Top 1% higher than 99%+ 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 60043 · Port Chester Fire Department, NY 312 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 312
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #109
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ City of Alexandria
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: City of Alexandria Fire Department, VA (+ 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.
- Port Chester (this dept) 312
- High Winston Salem Fir…, NC 312
- Near City of Alexandria, VA 312
- Near California Depart…, CA 312
- Low Des Moines Fire a…, IA 310
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Port Chester, NY
- County
- Westchester County
- FDID
- 60043
Staffing vs the New York average
How Port Chester Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #6 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #109 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 150
- NY departments
- 2,253
County roster fringe
Port Chester Fire Department is 5.4% of Westchester County roster mass
The county lists 94 departments totaling 5,737 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 78% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
1.28 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 312 roster).
Photo-finish peer: City of Alexandria Fire Department, VA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 312 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NY department.