Department profile
VolunteerUpper Darby Township Fire Department - Upper Darby Fire Company
Upper Darby, PA · Delaware County. Upper Darby Township Fire Department - Upper Darby Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 5 stations and 308 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 308
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Upper Darby Township Fire Department - Upper Darby Fire Company pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Pennsylvania average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +780%
- vs. Pennsylvania average
- 5
- stations
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.
Upper Darby Township Fire Department - Upper Darby Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Upper Darby, PA (Delaware County), with 5 stations and 308 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #112 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #112 of 22,440
- PA personnel rank #3 of 1,275
- 1.62 stations per 100 personnel
- 58 other listed departments in Delaware County
Upper Darby Township Fire Department - Upper Darby Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
308 Top 1% higher than 99%+ 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 23111 · Upper Darby Township Fire Department - Upper Darby Fire Company, PA 308 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 308
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #112
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Des Moines Fire a…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Des Moines Fire and Rescue Department, IA (+ 2 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.
- High California Depart…, CA 312
- Near Des Moines Fire a…, IA 310
- Upper Darby Towns… (this dept) 308
- Near Roanoke Fire and…, VA 305
- Low Volunteer Hose Co…, DE 304
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Upper Darby, PA
- County
- Delaware County
- FDID
- 23111
Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average
How Upper Darby Township Fire Department - Upper Darby Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #3 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #112 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 115
- PA departments
- 2,427
County roster fringe
Upper Darby Township Fire Department - Upper Darby Fire Company is 8.9% of Delaware County roster mass
The county lists 71 departments totaling 3,474 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 65% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
1.62 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 308 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Des Moines Fire and Rescue Department, IA (+2 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 308 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every PA department.