Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderByram Township Fire Department
Andover, NJ · Sussex County. Byram Township Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 46 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.
- 46
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Byram Township Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the New Jersey average.
- Top 20%
- national personnel size
- +28%
- vs. New Jersey average
- 3
- 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.
Byram Township Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Andover, NJ (Sussex County), with 3 stations and 46 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,562 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,562 of 22,440
- NJ personnel rank #153 of 487
- 6.52 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 27 other listed departments in Sussex County
Byram Township Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
46 Top 20% higher than 80% 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 19191 · Byram Township Fire Department, NJ 46 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 46
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,562
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Talleyville Fire…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Talleyville Fire Company, DE (+ 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 NJ department.
- Byram Township (this dept) 46
- High Funkstown Volunte…, MD 46
- Near Talleyville Fire…, DE 46
- Near East Carroll Rura…, LA 46
- Near Cedar City, UT 46
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Andover, NJ
- County
- Sussex County
- FDID
- 19191
Staffing vs the New Jersey average
How Byram Township Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #153 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,562 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 70
- NJ departments
- 999
County roster fringe
Byram Township Fire Department is 4.6% of Sussex County roster mass
The county lists 38 departments totaling 990 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 47% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
6.52 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 46 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Talleyville Fire Company, DE (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 46 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NJ department.