Department profile
VolunteerUnity Volunteer Fire Department
Pittsburgh, PA · Allegheny County. Unity Volunteer Fire Department 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
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Unity Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Pennsylvania average.
- Top 22%
- national personnel size
- +29%
- vs. Pennsylvania average
- 1
- station
- $644,366
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Unity Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Pittsburgh, PA (Allegheny 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 #5,041 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $644,366.
- National personnel rank #5,041 of 22,440
- PA personnel rank #543 of 1,275
- 2.22 stations per 100 personnel
- 165 other listed departments in Allegheny County
Unity Volunteer Fire Department 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 02233 · Unity Volunteer Fire Department, PA 45 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 45
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-UPPER #5,041
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Graniteville-Vauc…
- FEMA-MID $644K
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Graniteville-Vaucluse-Warrenville Volunteer Fire Department, SC (+ 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.
- Unity Volunteer (this dept) 45
- High Buchanan Volunteer, VA 45
- Near Graniteville-Vauc…, SC 45
- Near Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ 45
- Near Anoka-Champlin, MN 45
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA
- County
- Allegheny County
- FDID
- 02233
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | EMW-2022-FG-08559 | $433,731.81 |
| 2022 | EMW-2022-FG-03681 | $127,114.28 |
| 2020 | EMW-2020-FF-01326 | $83,520 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average
How Unity Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #543 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,041 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
Unity Volunteer Fire Department is 0.8% of Allegheny County roster mass
The county lists 201 departments totaling 5,871 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 66% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.22 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 45 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Graniteville-Vaucluse-Warrenville Volunteer Fire Department, SC (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 45 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every PA department.