Department profile

Volunteer

South Middleton Township Fire Company

Boiling Springs, PA · Cumberland County. South Middleton Township Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 45 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

45
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

South Middleton Township Fire Company pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Pennsylvania average.

Top 22%
national personnel size
+29%
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
89/100
South Middleton Township 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
45 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
45 personnel · 1 station

South Middleton Township Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Boiling Springs, PA (Cumberland County), with 1 station and 45 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,012 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #5,012 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #539 of 1,275
  • 2.22 stations per 100 personnel
  • 21 other listed departments in Cumberland County

South Middleton Township Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

45 Top 22% higher than 78% 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 21035 · South Middleton Township Fire Company, PA 45 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 45
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #5,012
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Inlet Volunteer E…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Inlet Volunteer Emergency Services Doing Business AS Inlet Volunteer Hose Company, NY (+ 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
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Boiling Springs, PA
FDID
21035

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How South Middleton Township Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #539 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,012 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 29% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

South Middleton Township Fire Company is 3.4% of Cumberland County roster mass

The county lists 36 departments totaling 1,340 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 81% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.22 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 45 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Inlet Volunteer Emergency Services Doing Business AS Inlet Volunteer Hose Company, NY (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 45 personnel

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