Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderHaverhill Fire Department - 16th Avenue Station
Haverhill, MA · Essex County. Haverhill Fire Department - 16th Avenue Station is a Career (Paid) department, 6 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
- 6
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Haverhill Fire Department - 16th Avenue Station pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Massachusetts average.
- Top 3%
- national personnel size
- +257%
- vs. Massachusetts average
- 6
- 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.
Haverhill Fire Department - 16th Avenue Station is a Career (Paid) department serving Haverhill, MA (Essex County), with 6 stations and 125 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #617 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #617 of 22,440
- MA personnel rank #20 of 326
- 4.80 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 47 other listed departments in Essex County
Haverhill Fire Department - 16th Avenue Station 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 09128 · Haverhill Fire Department - 16th Avenue Station, MA 125 personnel · 6 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 125
- STA-MULTI 6 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #617
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Reserve Hose Fire…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Reserve Hose Fire Company - Berg Road Station, NY (+ 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 MA department.
- Haverhill Fire De… (this dept) 125
- High Hackensack Fire D…, NJ 125
- Near Reserve Hose Fire…, NY 125
- Near Lutherville Volun…, MD 125
- Near White Marsh Volun…, MD 125
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Haverhill, MA
- County
- Essex County
- FDID
- 09128
Staffing vs the Massachusetts average
How Haverhill Fire Department - 16th Avenue Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Massachusetts. In-state it ranks #20 of 326 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #617 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 6
- State fire deaths/yr
- 51
- MA departments
- 568
County roster fringe
Haverhill Fire Department - 16th Avenue Station is 6.3% of Essex County roster mass
The county lists 55 departments totaling 1,997 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 80% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.80 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (6 stations / 125 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Reserve Hose Fire Company - Berg Road Station, NY (+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 MA department.