Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderHackensack Fire Department / Hackensack Volunteer Ambulance Corps
Hackensack, NJ · Bergen County. Hackensack Fire Department / Hackensack Volunteer Ambulance Corps is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 125 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.
- 125
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Hackensack Fire Department / Hackensack Volunteer Ambulance Corps pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the New Jersey average.
- Top 3%
- national personnel size
- +247%
- vs. New Jersey average
- 4
- 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.
Hackensack Fire Department / Hackensack Volunteer Ambulance Corps is a Career (Paid) department serving Hackensack, NJ (Bergen County), with 4 stations and 125 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #615 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #615 of 22,440
- NJ personnel rank #19 of 487
- 3.20 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 64 other listed departments in Bergen County
Hackensack Fire Department / Hackensack Volunteer Ambulance Corps vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
125 Top 3% higher than 97% 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 02230 · Hackensack Fire Department / Hackensack Volunteer Ambulance Corps, NJ 125 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 125
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #615
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hickory
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Hickory Fire Department, NC (+ 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.
- Hackensack Fire D… (this dept) 125
- High Midway Volunteer…, PA 125
- Near Hickory, NC 125
- Near White Marsh Volun…, MD 125
- Near Lutherville Volun…, MD 125
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Hackensack, NJ
- County
- Bergen County
- Ambulances
- 2
- FDID
- 02230
Staffing vs the New Jersey average
How Hackensack Fire Department / Hackensack Volunteer Ambulance Corps's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #19 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #615 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 70
- NJ departments
- 999
County roster fringe
Hackensack Fire Department / Hackensack Volunteer Ambulance Corps is 3.3% of Bergen County roster mass
The county lists 103 departments totaling 3,763 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 23% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.20 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 125 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Hickory Fire Department, NC (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 125 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NJ department.