Department profile
VolunteerWest End Fire and Rescue Company
Mahanoy City, PA · Schuylkill County. West End Fire and Rescue Company is a Volunteer department, 5 stations and 33 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 33
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
West End Fire and Rescue Company pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the Pennsylvania average.
- Top 40%
- national personnel size
- -6%
- 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.
West End Fire and Rescue Company is a Volunteer department serving Mahanoy City, PA (Schuylkill County), with 5 stations and 33 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,915 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #8,915 of 22,440
- PA personnel rank #866 of 1,275
- 15.15 stations per 100 personnel
- 51 other listed departments in Schuylkill County
West End Fire and Rescue Company vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
33 Top 40% higher than 60% 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 54548 · West End Fire and Rescue Company, PA 33 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 33
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #8,915
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Vienna Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Vienna Volunteer Fire Department, WV (+ 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.
- West End Fire and… (this dept) 33
- High North Keokuk Coun…, IA 33
- Near Vienna Volunteer, WV 33
- Near Will Rogers World…, OK 33
- Near Roberts-Warren, WI 33
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Mahanoy City, PA
- County
- Schuylkill County
- FDID
- 54548
Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average
How West End Fire and Rescue Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #866 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,915 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
West End Fire and Rescue Company is 0.8% of Schuylkill County roster mass
The county lists 100 departments totaling 4,231 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 39% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
15.15 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 33 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Vienna Volunteer Fire Department, WV (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 33 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every PA department.