Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderAtlantic City Fire Department
Atlantic City, NJ · Atlantic County. Atlantic City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 6 stations and 279 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.
- 279
- Total personnel
- 6
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Atlantic City Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the New Jersey average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +675%
- vs. New Jersey average
- 6
- stations
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.
Atlantic City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Atlantic City, NJ (Atlantic County), with 6 stations and 279 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #132 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #132 of 22,440
- NJ personnel rank #3 of 487
- 2.15 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 30 other listed departments in Atlantic County
Atlantic City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
279 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 01020 · Atlantic City Fire Department, NJ 279 personnel · 6 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 279
- STA-MULTI 6 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #132
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lubbock
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Lubbock Fire Department, TX ( -1 personnel)
Career/paid 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 NJ department.
- Atlantic City (this dept) 279
- Near Lubbock, TX 278
- Low Lawrence Douglas…, KS 276
- Near West Haven, CT 276
- Near Anaheim, CA 276
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Atlantic City, NJ
- County
- Atlantic County
- FDID
- 01020
Staffing vs the New Jersey average
How Atlantic City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #3 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #132 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 6
- State fire deaths/yr
- 70
- NJ departments
- 999
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Atlantic County
County mix is mostly volunteer (26 volunteer / 5 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
2.15 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (6 stations / 279 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Lubbock Fire Department, TX (-1 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 279 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NJ department.