Department profile
Career (Paid)City of Orange Township Fire Department
Orange, NJ · Essex County. City of Orange Township Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 72 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 72
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
City of Orange Township Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the New Jersey average.
- Top 8%
- national personnel size
- +100%
- vs. New Jersey 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.
City of Orange Township Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Orange, NJ (Essex County), with 2 stations and 72 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,788 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,788 of 22,440
- NJ personnel rank #58 of 487
- 2.78 stations per 100 personnel
- 24 other listed departments in Essex County
City of Orange Township Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
72 Top 8% higher than 92% 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 07170 · City of Orange Township Fire Department, NJ 72 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 72
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #1,788
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hacks Point Fire…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Hacks Point Fire Company, MD (+ 0 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.
- City of Orange To… (this dept) 72
- High Florence Fire and…, KY 72
- Near Hacks Point Fire…, MD 72
- Near Frederick County…, VA 72
- Near Royal Oak, MI 72
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Orange, NJ
- County
- Essex County
- FDID
- 07170
Staffing vs the New Jersey average
How City of Orange Township Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #58 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,788 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 70
- NJ departments
- 999
County roster fringe
City of Orange Township Fire Department is 3.4% of Essex County roster mass
The county lists 36 departments totaling 2,107 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 44% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.78 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 72 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Hacks Point Fire Company, MD (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 72 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NJ department.