Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderSchuyler Heights Fire District
Watervliet, NY · Albany County. Schuyler Heights Fire District is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 42 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.
- 42
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Schuyler Heights Fire District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount in line with the New York average.
- Top 25%
- national personnel size
- +0%
- 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.
Schuyler Heights Fire District is a Volunteer department serving Watervliet, NY (Albany County), with 1 station and 42 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,599 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,599 of 22,440
- NY personnel rank #848 of 1,368
- 2.38 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 43 other listed departments in Albany County
Schuyler Heights Fire District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
42 Top 25% higher than 75% 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 01028 · Schuyler Heights Fire District, NY 42 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 42
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Ellerslie Volunte…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Ellerslie Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated, MD (+ 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.
- Schuyler Heights… (this dept) 42
- High East Greenwich Fi…, RI 42
- Near Ellerslie Volunte…, MD 42
- Near Northfield Volunt…, CT 42
- Near Dublin Volunteer, NC 42
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Watervliet, NY
- County
- Albany County
- FDID
- 01028
Staffing vs the New York average
How Schuyler Heights Fire District's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #848 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,599 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
Schuyler Heights Fire District is 1.9% of Albany County roster mass
The county lists 57 departments totaling 2,169 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 77% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.38 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 42 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Ellerslie Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated, MD (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 42 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NY department.