Department profile
Career (Paid)Reading Fire and Rescue Rainbow - Junior Fire Company
Reading, PA · Berks County. Reading Fire and Rescue Rainbow - Junior Fire Company is a Career (Paid) department, 9 stations and 184 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 184
- Total personnel
- 9
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Reading Fire and Rescue Rainbow - Junior Fire Company pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Pennsylvania average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +426%
- vs. Pennsylvania average
- 9
- 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.
Reading Fire and Rescue Rainbow - Junior Fire Company is a Career (Paid) department serving Reading, PA (Berks County), with 9 stations and 184 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #270 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #270 of 22,440
- PA personnel rank #11 of 1,275
- 4.89 stations per 100 personnel
- 46 other listed departments in Berks County
Reading Fire and Rescue Rainbow - Junior Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
184 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 06025 · Reading Fire and Rescue Rainbow - Junior Fire Company, PA 184 personnel · 9 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 184
- STA-MULTI 9 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #270
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ City of Everett F…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: City of Everett Fire Department - Adminstration Office, WA (+ 0 personnel)
Career/paid 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.
- High Bossier City, LA 185
- Reading Fire and… (this dept) 184
- Near City of Everett F…, WA 184
- Near Harrison County F…, MS 184
- Near Clarksville Fire…, TN 184
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Reading, PA
- County
- Berks County
- FDID
- 06025
Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average
How Reading Fire and Rescue Rainbow - Junior Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #11 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #270 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 9
- State fire deaths/yr
- 115
- PA departments
- 2,427
County roster fringe
Reading Fire and Rescue Rainbow - Junior Fire Company is 6.4% 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.
4.89 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (9 stations / 184 roster).
Photo-finish peer: City of Everett Fire Department - Adminstration Office, WA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 184 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every PA department.