Department profile
VolunteerShillington Borough Fire Company
Shillington, PA · Berks County. Shillington Borough Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 51 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 51
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Shillington Borough Fire Company pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Pennsylvania average.
- Top 17%
- national personnel size
- +46%
- 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 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.
Shillington Borough Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Shillington, PA (Berks County), with 1 station and 51 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,754 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,754 of 22,440
- PA personnel rank #391 of 1,275
- 1.96 stations per 100 personnel
- 46 other listed departments in Berks County
Shillington Borough Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
51 Top 17% higher than 83% 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 06067 · Shillington Borough Fire Company, PA 51 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 51
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #3,754
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Spruce Pine Fire…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Spruce Pine Fire and Rescue, NC (+ 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.
- Shillington Borou… (this dept) 51
- High Denmark, SC 51
- Near Spruce Pine Fire…, NC 51
- Near Sacramento River…, CA 51
- Near Cridersville, OH 51
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Shillington, PA
- County
- Berks County
- FDID
- 06067
Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average
How Shillington Borough Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #391 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,754 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 115
- PA departments
- 2,427
County roster fringe
Shillington Borough Fire Company is 1.8% 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.
1.96 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 51 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Spruce Pine Fire and Rescue, NC (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 51 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every PA department.