Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderWhitesville Fire Department
Whitesville, NY · Allegany County. Whitesville Fire Department is a Volunteer department and 43 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.
- 43
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Whitesville Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount in line with the New York average.
- Top 24%
- national personnel size
- +2%
- vs. New York average
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.
Whitesville Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Whitesville, NY (Allegany County) and 43 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,411 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,411 of 22,440
- NY personnel rank #827 of 1,368
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 25 other listed departments in Allegany County
Whitesville Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
43 Top 24% higher than 76% 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 02026 · Whitesville Fire Department, NY 43 personnel
PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 43
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,411
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Blue Hills
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Blue Hills Fire Department, CT (+ 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 NY department.
- Whitesville (this dept) 43
- High Harrington Park, NJ 43
- Near Blue Hills, CT 43
- Near Fallon-Churchill…, NV 43
- Near Chatham County Fi…, NC 43
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Whitesville, NY
- County
- Allegany County
- FDID
- 02026
Staffing vs the New York average
How Whitesville Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #827 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,411 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 150
- NY departments
- 2,253
County roster fringe
Whitesville Fire Department is 3.8% of Allegany County roster mass
The county lists 30 departments totaling 1,120 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 80% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Blue Hills Fire Department, CT (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 43 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NY department.