Department profile

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Wolcottsville Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated

Akron, NY · Niagara County. Wolcottsville Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 38 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.

38
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Wolcottsville Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the New York average.

Top 31%
national personnel size
-10%
vs. New York 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.

A
PlainFireData Composite Score
81/100
Wolcottsville Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated

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 A
38 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
38 personnel · 1 station

Wolcottsville Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated is a Volunteer department serving Akron, NY (Niagara County), with 1 station and 38 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #6,921 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #6,921 of 22,440
  • NY personnel rank #964 of 1,368
  • 2.63 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 27 other listed departments in Niagara County

Wolcottsville Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated vs. the national personnel distribution

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

38 Top 31% higher than 69% 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 32029 · Wolcottsville Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated, NY 38 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 38
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #6,921
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Eastern Plumas Ru…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Eastern Plumas Rural Fire Protection District, CA (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Akron, NY
FDID
32029

Staffing vs the New York average

How Wolcottsville Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #964 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #6,921 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 10% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
150
NY departments
2,253

County roster fringe

Wolcottsville Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated is 2.3% of Niagara County roster mass

The county lists 35 departments totaling 1,642 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 91% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.63 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 38 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Eastern Plumas Rural Fire Protection District, CA (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 38 personnel

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