Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderExeter Fire Department
Exeter, NH · Rockingham County. Exeter Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department and 47 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.
- 47
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Exeter Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the New Hampshire average.
- Top 20%
- national personnel size
- +88%
- vs. New Hampshire average
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.
Exeter Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Exeter, NH (Rockingham County) and 47 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,433 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,433 of 22,440
- NH personnel rank #40 of 203
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 45 other listed departments in Rockingham County
Exeter Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
47 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 71230 · Exeter Fire Department, NH 47 personnel
PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 47
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,433
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ White House Commu…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: White House Community Volunteer Fire Department, TN (+ 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 NH department.
- Exeter (this dept) 47
- High Claremore, OK 47
- Near White House Commu…, TN 47
- Near Okauchee, WI 47
- Near Windham Volunteer, OH 47
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Exeter, NH
- County
- Rockingham County
- FDID
- 71230
Staffing vs the New Hampshire average
How Exeter Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Hampshire. In-state it ranks #40 of 203 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,433 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 10
- NH departments
- 293
County roster fringe
Exeter Fire Department is 3.0% of Rockingham County roster mass
The county lists 53 departments totaling 1,569 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 100% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: White House Community Volunteer Fire Department, TN (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 47 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NH department.