Department profile

Volunteer

Summerhill Township Volunteer Fire Company

Sidman, PA · Cambria County. Summerhill Township Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 55 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

55
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Summerhill Township Volunteer Fire Company pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Pennsylvania average.

Top 15%
national personnel size
+57%
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
92/100
Summerhill Township 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
55 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
55 personnel · 1 station

Summerhill Township Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Sidman, PA (Cambria County), with 1 station and 55 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,273 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #3,273 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #345 of 1,275
  • 1.82 stations per 100 personnel
  • 42 other listed departments in Cambria County

Summerhill Township Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

55 Top 15% higher than 85% 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 11080 · Summerhill Township Volunteer Fire Company, PA 55 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MID 55
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #3,273
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Poynette-Dekorra…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Poynette-Dekorra Fire Department / Poynette-Dekorra Emergency Medical Services, WI (+ 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
Sidman, PA
FDID
11080

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Summerhill Township Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #345 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,273 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 57% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

Summerhill Township Volunteer Fire Company is 2.3% of Cambria County roster mass

The county lists 53 departments totaling 2,354 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 17% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

1.82 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 55 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Poynette-Dekorra Fire Department / Poynette-Dekorra Emergency Medical Services, WI (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 55 personnel

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