Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Sharon Springs Joint Fire District

Sharon Springs, NY · Schoharie County. Sharon Springs Joint Fire District is a Volunteer department, 1 station 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
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Sharon Springs Joint Fire District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the New York average.

Top 18%
national personnel size
+19%
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
PlainFireData Composite Score
91/100
Sharon Springs Joint Fire District

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
50 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
50 personnel · 1 station

Sharon Springs Joint Fire District is a Volunteer department serving Sharon Springs, NY (Schoharie County), with 1 station and 50 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,037 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #4,037 of 22,440
  • NY personnel rank #655 of 1,368
  • 2.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 15 other listed departments in Schoharie County

Sharon Springs Joint Fire District 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 48015 · Sharon Springs Joint Fire District, NY 50 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MID 50
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #4,037
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Elizabethtown
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Elizabethtown Fire Department, KY (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Sharon Springs, NY
FDID
48015

Staffing vs the New York average

How Sharon Springs Joint Fire District's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #655 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,037 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 19% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
150
NY departments
2,253

County roster fringe

Sharon Springs Joint Fire District is 9.9% of Schoharie County roster mass

The county lists 17 departments totaling 507 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 47% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 50 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Elizabethtown Fire Department, KY (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 50 personnel

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