About this York County 911 dashboard

This page shows the 911 calls York County, Pennsylvania dispatch is handling right now — fires, medical calls, vehicle accidents, and police dispatches — plus active road closures and out-of-service hydrants. It reads the county’s public dispatch feed every four minutes and is an unofficial mirror, not a county service.

How this dashboard works, field by field →

About this dashboard

Everything here comes from the public York County Department of Emergency Services WebCAD status page. Nothing is added to or removed from what the county publishes — it is only reformatted so it is legible on a phone, searchable, filterable, and plottable on a map.

Dispatch times are published by the county as Eastern time and are shown as Eastern wall-clock time wherever you are viewing from. This site is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by York County government or York County Department of Emergency Services.

Municipalities covered (72)

Dispatches are reported for every borough and township in York County, including York City. Mutual-aid calls into neighboring counties are counted separately beneath the map.

  • Carroll Township
  • Chanceford Township
  • Codorus Township
  • Conewago Township
  • Cross Roads Borough
  • Dallastown Borough
  • Delta Borough
  • Dillsburg Borough
  • Dover Borough
  • Dover Township
  • East Hopewell Township
  • East Manchester Township
  • East Prospect Borough
  • Fairview Township
  • Fawn Grove Borough
  • Fawn Township
  • Felton Borough
  • Franklin Township
  • Franklintown Borough
  • Glen Rock Borough
  • Goldsboro Borough
  • Hallam Borough
  • Hanover Borough
  • Heidelberg Township
  • Hellam Township
  • Hopewell Township
  • Jackson Township
  • Jacobus Borough
  • Jefferson Borough
  • Lewisberry Borough
  • Loganville Borough
  • Lower Chanceford Township
  • Lower Windsor Township
  • Manchester Borough
  • Manchester Township
  • Manheim Township
  • Monaghan Township
  • Mount Wolf Borough
  • New Freedom Borough
  • New Salem Borough
  • Newberry Township
  • North Codorus Township
  • North Hopewell Township
  • North York Borough
  • Paradise Township
  • Peach Bottom Township
  • Penn Township
  • Railroad Borough
  • Red Lion Borough
  • Seven Valleys Borough
  • Shrewsbury Borough
  • Shrewsbury Township
  • Spring Garden Township
  • Spring Grove Borough
  • Springettsbury Township
  • Springfield Township
  • Stewartstown Borough
  • Warrington Township
  • Washington Township
  • Wellsville Borough
  • West Manchester Township
  • West Manheim Township
  • West York Borough
  • Windsor Borough
  • Windsor Township
  • Winterstown Borough
  • Wrightsville Borough
  • Yoe Borough
  • York City
  • York Haven Borough
  • York Township
  • Yorkana Borough
Frequently asked questions
Is this the official York County 911 website?
No, and it is not run by anyone in county government. York County 911 is a volunteer-built mirror of a page the county already publishes. The authoritative sources are the York County Department of Emergency Services at ycdes.org and York County government at yorkcountypa.gov. If the two ever disagree, believe the county. In an emergency, call 911 — nobody monitors this website.
Where exactly does the data on this page come from?
From one place: the WebCAD status page that York County Department of Emergency Services publishes at ycdes.org. That page is an HTML table of calls currently open in the county CAD system, and this site reads it, parses the rows, and re-renders them. There is no second source, no manual entry, and no editorial step. If a call is missing here it was missing from the county page too.
How current is what I am looking at?
The dashboard re-reads the county page every four minutes and shows a countdown to the next read in the header, so the worst case is four minutes of staleness plus whatever lag the county page itself carries. The Refresh button forces an immediate read. Dispatch times come off the county page as Eastern time with no timezone marker, so they are rendered as Eastern wall-clock time regardless of where you are.
Can I see which fire companies and units are responding?
Usually, yes. York County publishes a per-incident detail page listing the units assigned to each call, and where that link exists the incident card can be flipped over to show the unit roster and the call number. Some calls have no detail page, in which case only the summary row is available.
Does this page cover road closures and fire hydrants too?
Yes. The York County WebCAD page publishes a road closure list and an out-of-service hydrant list alongside the active calls, and both are carried here in an Advisories section that appears only when the county is reporting at least one of them. Not every Pennsylvania county publishes these, so they are specific to York.
Can I listen to York County fire and EMS radio traffic?
Yes, on Broadcastify, which the Listen button in the header links to directly. Five York County feeds are carried: countywide fire dispatch, countywide EMS dispatch, fire police, and the north and south fire operations channels. Audio plays on Broadcastify rather than on this site, because their embed program is only open to the owner of each feed.
Why is there no York County police audio?
Because it no longer exists in a listenable form. York County encrypted police dispatch countywide in November 2024, and every Law Dispatch and Law Tac talkgroup on the county P25 Phase II radio system is now flagged encrypted. No scanner, app, subscription, or website can carry it — this is a decision the county made, not a gap in this site. Fire and EMS remain unencrypted and the county has said it has no plans to change that.
Why does the map circle an entire township instead of dropping a pin?
Because a pin would be a guess. The county feed contains no coordinates and no house numbers — only a street, sometimes a cross street, and a municipality. Lincoln Highway alone runs for miles across the county, so a single point on it would imply precision the data does not have. Just as importantly, a large share of calls are medical calls at private homes, and geocoding those to an address would effectively identify the person who called 911. Each municipality is therefore drawn as one circle sized to its actual land area, using boundary data from the US Census Bureau.
How many municipalities does this cover?
All 72 in York County: 36 boroughs, 35 townships, and the City of York. Calls that dispatch into a neighbouring county as mutual aid — Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, and Lancaster all border York — cannot be matched to a York municipality, so they are counted and disclosed beneath the map instead of being silently dropped.
How are calls sorted into Fire, EMS, Traffic, Police, and Other?
By matching keywords in whatever category string the county supplies. Anything containing FIRE, RESCUE, or HAZMAT becomes Fire; MEDICAL, EMS, or AMBULANCE becomes EMS; TRAFFIC, ROAD, or MVA becomes Traffic; POLICE or LAW becomes Police; anything else becomes Other. These are this site’s groupings for filtering and colour-coding, not official York County incident classifications.
Can I look up an incident from yesterday, or search a police log?
No. The county publishes a snapshot of what is open right now, not an archive, and this site keeps no history of its own — once a call clears it disappears from the county page and from here on the next read. There is no way to recover a call after the fact through this site, and no police blotter or arrest log is available.
Is this page free, and how is it paid for?
It is free and requires no account. Running costs are covered by advertising, which is why you may see ads on the page. Advertising has no influence on what appears in the incident list, since the list is a direct reflection of the county feed.