Department profile

Volunteer

West Sunbury Volunteer Fire Department

Butler, PA · Butler County. West Sunbury Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 30 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

30
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Not reported
EMS service

The verdict

West Sunbury Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the Pennsylvania average.

Top 48%
national personnel size
-14%
vs. Pennsylvania average
1
station

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
67/100
West Sunbury Volunteer Fire Department

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
30 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
30 personnel · 1 station

West Sunbury Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Butler, PA (Butler County), with 1 station and 30 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #10,856 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #10,856 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #968 of 1,275
  • 3.33 stations per 100 personnel
  • 38 other listed departments in Butler County

West Sunbury Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

30 Top 48% higher than 52% 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 10025 · West Sunbury Volunteer Fire Department, PA 30 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-SMALL 30
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-UNK EMS pending
  • RANK-MID #10,856
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Abbotsford Fire D…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Abbotsford Fire Department / Abbotsford Area Ambulance Service, WI (+ 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
Butler, PA
FDID
10025

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How West Sunbury Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #968 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #10,856 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 14% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

West Sunbury Volunteer Fire Department is 2.5% of Butler County roster mass

The county lists 41 departments totaling 1,191 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 66% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 30 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Abbotsford Fire Department / Abbotsford Area Ambulance Service, WI (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 30 personnel

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