Department profile

Volunteer

Slippery Rock Township Volunteer Fire Department

New Castle, PA · Lawrence County. Slippery Rock Township Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 47 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

47
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Not reported
EMS service

The verdict

Slippery Rock Township Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Pennsylvania average.

Top 20%
national personnel size
+34%
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
90/100
Slippery Rock Township Volunteer Fire Department

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
47 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
47 personnel · 1 station

Slippery Rock Township Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving New Castle, PA (Lawrence County), with 1 station and 47 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,511 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #4,511 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #482 of 1,275
  • 2.13 stations per 100 personnel
  • 21 other listed departments in Lawrence County

Slippery Rock Township Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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 37014 · Slippery Rock Township Volunteer Fire Department, PA 47 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-SMALL 47
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-UNK EMS pending
  • RANK-UPPER #4,511
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Sycuan
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Sycuan Fire Department, CA (+ 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
New Castle, PA
FDID
37014

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Slippery Rock Township Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #482 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,511 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 34% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

Slippery Rock Township Volunteer Fire Department is 7.0% of Lawrence County roster mass

The county lists 25 departments totaling 668 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 48% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.13 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 47 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Sycuan Fire Department, CA (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 47 personnel

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