Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Hopewell Fire Department and Emergency Medical Unit

Hopewell, NJ · Mercer County. Hopewell Fire Department and Emergency Medical Unit is a Volunteer department, 1 station 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
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Hopewell Fire Department and Emergency Medical Unit pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the New Jersey average.

Top 20%
national personnel size
+31%
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
90/100
Hopewell Fire Department and Emergency Medical Unit

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
47 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
47 personnel · 1 station

Hopewell Fire Department and Emergency Medical Unit is a Volunteer department serving Hopewell, NJ (Mercer County), with 1 station and 47 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,456 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #4,456 of 22,440
  • NJ personnel rank #146 of 487
  • 2.13 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 17 other listed departments in Mercer County

Hopewell Fire Department and Emergency Medical Unit 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 11052 · Hopewell Fire Department and Emergency Medical Unit, NJ 47 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 47
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #4,456
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ West Hills Region…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: West Hills Regional Fire Department, 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
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Hopewell, NJ
FDID
11052

Staffing vs the New Jersey average

How Hopewell Fire Department and Emergency Medical Unit's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #146 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,456 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 31% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
70
NJ departments
999

County roster fringe

Hopewell Fire Department and Emergency Medical Unit is 4.1% of Mercer County roster mass

The county lists 32 departments totaling 1,160 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 66% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.13 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 47 roster).

Photo-finish peer: West Hills Regional Fire Department, PA (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 47 personnel

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