Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

West End Fire Company

Brodheadsville, PA · Monroe County. West End Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 57 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.

57
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

West End Fire Company pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Pennsylvania average.

Top 13%
national personnel size
+63%
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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
63/100
West End 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 B
28.5 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
57 personnel · 2 stations

West End Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Brodheadsville, PA (Monroe County), with 2 stations and 57 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,954 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,954 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #295 of 1,275
  • 3.51 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 14 other listed departments in Monroe County

West End Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

57 Top 13% higher than 87% 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 45043 · West End Fire Company, PA 57 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-MID 57
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #2,954
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Quaker Springs Vo…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Quaker Springs Volunteer Fire Department, NY (+ 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
Brodheadsville, PA
FDID
45043

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How West End Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #295 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,954 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 63% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

West End Fire Company is 5.9% of Monroe County roster mass

The county lists 22 departments totaling 964 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 41% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.51 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 57 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Quaker Springs Volunteer Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 57 personnel

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