Department profile

Volunteer

Shaler Villa Volunteer Fire Company

Pittsburgh, PA · Allegheny County. Shaler Villa Volunteer 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

Shaler Villa Volunteer 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

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
PlainFireData Composite Score
93/100
Shaler Villa Volunteer 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
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
60 personnel · 1 station

Shaler Villa Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Pittsburgh, PA (Allegheny 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 #2,708 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,708 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #270 of 1,275
  • 1.67 stations per 100 personnel
  • 165 other listed departments in Allegheny County

Shaler Villa Volunteer 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 02262 · Shaler Villa Volunteer Fire Company, PA 60 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 60
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #2,708
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Maywood
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Maywood Fire Department, NJ (+ 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
Pittsburgh, PA
FDID
02262

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Shaler Villa Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #270 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,708 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

Shaler Villa Volunteer Fire Company is 1.0% of Allegheny County roster mass

The county lists 201 departments totaling 5,871 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 66% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

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

Photo-finish peer: Maywood Fire Department, NJ (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

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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.