Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderCampton-Thornton Fire Department
Campton, NH · Grafton County. Campton-Thornton Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 42 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.
- 42
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Campton-Thornton Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the New Hampshire average.
- Top 24%
- national personnel size
- +68%
- vs. New Hampshire average
- 2
- 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.
Campton-Thornton Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Campton, NH (Grafton County), with 2 stations and 42 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,446 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,446 of 22,440
- NH personnel rank #50 of 203
- 4.76 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 35 other listed departments in Grafton County
Campton-Thornton Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
42 Top 24% higher than 76% 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 40711 · Campton-Thornton Fire Department, NH 42 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 42
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,446
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Gwinner Fire Prot…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Gwinner Fire Protection District, ND (+ 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 NH department.
- Campton-Thornton (this dept) 42
- High Mountain, WI 42
- Near Gwinner Fire Prot…, ND 42
- Near Beaver Volunteer, AK 42
- Near Pickens Volunteer, WV 42
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Campton, NH
- County
- Grafton County
- FDID
- 40711
Staffing vs the New Hampshire average
How Campton-Thornton Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Hampshire. In-state it ranks #50 of 203 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,446 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 10
- NH departments
- 293
County roster fringe
Campton-Thornton Fire Department is 5.1% of Grafton County roster mass
The county lists 38 departments totaling 823 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 79% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.76 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 42 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Gwinner Fire Protection District, ND (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 42 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NH department.