Department profile

Volunteer

Woodlawn Fire Department

Allentown, PA · Lehigh County. Woodlawn Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 41 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

41
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Not reported
EMS service

The verdict

Woodlawn Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Pennsylvania average.

Top 26%
national personnel size
+17%
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.

A
PlainFireData Composite Score
84/100
Woodlawn 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 A
41 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
41 personnel · 1 station

Woodlawn Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Allentown, PA (Lehigh County), with 1 station and 41 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,823 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #5,823 of 22,440
  • PA personnel rank #597 of 1,275
  • 2.44 stations per 100 personnel
  • 32 other listed departments in Lehigh County

Woodlawn Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

41 Top 26% higher than 74% 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 39032 · Woodlawn Fire Department, PA 41 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 41
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-UNK EMS pending
  • RANK-UPPER #5,823
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Willard Fire and…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Willard Fire and Rescue, OH (+ 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
Allentown, PA
FDID
39032

Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average

How Woodlawn Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #597 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,823 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 17% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
115
PA departments
2,427

County roster fringe

Woodlawn Fire Department is 3.7% of Lehigh County roster mass

The county lists 42 departments totaling 1,104 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 69% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.44 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 41 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Willard Fire and Rescue, OH (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 41 personnel

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