Department profile

Volunteer

Progress Fire Company

Harrisburg, PA · Dauphin County. Progress Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 60 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

60
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

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

Top 12%
national personnel size
+71%
vs. Pennsylvania average
1
station
$320,000
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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
60/100
Progress 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
60 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 F
$5,333 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
60 personnel · 1 station

Progress Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Harrisburg, PA (Dauphin County), with 1 station and 60 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,692 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $320,000.

  • National personnel rank #2,692 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #264 of 1,275
  • 1.67 stations per 100 personnel
  • 16 other listed departments in Dauphin County

Progress Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

60 Top 12% higher than 88% 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 22032 · Progress Fire Company, PA 60 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 60
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #2,692
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Platteville Volun…
  • FEMA-LIGHT $320K
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Platteville Volunteer Fire Department, WI (+ 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
Harrisburg, PA
FDID
22032

FEMA Grant History

$320K
Cumulative funding (FY2020)
1
Awards
Year Award Amount
2020 EMW-2020-FG-12288 $320,000

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Progress Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #264 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,692 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 71% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

Progress Fire Company is 3.9% of Dauphin County roster mass

The county lists 38 departments totaling 1,558 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 89% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

1.67 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 60 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Platteville Volunteer Fire Department, WI (+0 personnel).

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Lawnton Fire Company
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 60 personnel

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