Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Colonia Volunteer Hook and Ladder Company

Colonia, NJ · Middlesex County. Colonia Volunteer Hook and Ladder Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 50 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.

50
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Colonia Volunteer Hook and Ladder Company pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the New Jersey average.

Top 17%
national personnel size
+39%
vs. New Jersey average
1
station

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
PlainFireData Composite Score
91/100
Colonia Volunteer Hook and Ladder Company

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.

Staffing capacity A
50 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
50 personnel · 1 station

Colonia Volunteer Hook and Ladder Company is a Volunteer department serving Colonia, NJ (Middlesex County), with 1 station and 50 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,846 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #3,846 of 22,440
  • NJ personnel rank #120 of 487
  • 2.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 31 other listed departments in Middlesex County

Colonia Volunteer Hook and Ladder Company vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

50 Top 17% higher than 83% 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 12625 · Colonia Volunteer Hook and Ladder Company, NJ 50 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 50
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #3,846
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Wattsburg Hose Co…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Wattsburg Hose Company, PA (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Colonia, NJ
FDID
12625

Staffing vs the New Jersey average

How Colonia Volunteer Hook and Ladder Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #120 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,846 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 39% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
70
NJ departments
999

County roster fringe

Colonia Volunteer Hook and Ladder Company is 2.1% of Middlesex County roster mass

The county lists 69 departments totaling 2,424 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 64% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 50 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Wattsburg Hose Company, PA (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 50 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NJ department.