Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Upper Makefield Fire Company

Washington Crossing, PA · Bucks County. Upper Makefield Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 40 total personnel. The department also provides EMS services. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

40
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Upper Makefield Fire Company pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the Pennsylvania average.

Top 28%
national personnel size
+14%
vs. Pennsylvania average
2
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
38/100
Upper Makefield 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 D
20 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
40 personnel · 2 stations

Upper Makefield Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Washington Crossing, PA (Bucks County), with 2 stations and 40 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #6,387 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #6,387 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #674 of 1,275
  • 5.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 42 other listed departments in Bucks County

Upper Makefield Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

40 Top 28% higher than 72% 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 09071 · Upper Makefield Fire Company, PA 40 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 40
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #6,387
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Vance County Fire…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Vance County Fire and Ambulance Service, NC (+ 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
Washington Crossing, PA
FDID
09071

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Upper Makefield Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #674 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #6,387 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 14% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

Upper Makefield Fire Company is 1.5% of Bucks County roster mass

The county lists 76 departments totaling 2,658 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 70% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

5.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 40 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Vance County Fire and Ambulance Service, NC (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 40 personnel

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