Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderProvidence Volunteer Fire Department
Galway, NY · Saratoga County. Providence Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 50 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.
- 50
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Providence Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the New York average.
- Top 18%
- national personnel size
- +19%
- vs. New York average
- 2
- 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.
Providence Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Galway, NY (Saratoga County), with 2 stations and 50 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,017 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,017 of 22,440
- NY personnel rank #651 of 1,368
- 4.00 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 35 other listed departments in Saratoga County
Providence Volunteer Fire Department 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 46020 · Providence Volunteer Fire Department, NY 50 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 50
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,017
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Flourtown Fire Co…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Flourtown Fire Company, 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.
- Providence Volunt… (this dept) 50
- High Granville Township, OH 50
- Near Flourtown Fire Co…, PA 50
- Near Lincoln Fire Comp…, PA 50
- Near West Licking Join…, OH 50
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Galway, NY
- County
- Saratoga County
- FDID
- 46020
Staffing vs the New York average
How Providence Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #651 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,017 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 150
- NY departments
- 2,253
County roster fringe
Providence Volunteer Fire Department is 2.7% of Saratoga County roster mass
The county lists 47 departments totaling 1,821 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 94% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 50 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Flourtown Fire Company, 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.