Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Lanoka Harbor Volunteer Fire Department

Lanoka Harbor, NJ · Ocean County. Lanoka Harbor Volunteer Fire Department 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

Lanoka Harbor Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the New Jersey average.

Top 18%
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
Lanoka Harbor Volunteer Fire Department

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

Lanoka Harbor Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Lanoka Harbor, NJ (Ocean 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 #3,935 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #3,935 of 22,440
  • NJ personnel rank #127 of 487
  • 2.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 20 other listed departments in Ocean County

Lanoka Harbor Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

50 Top 18% higher than 82% 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 15061 · Lanoka Harbor Volunteer Fire Department, 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 #3,935
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ North Evans Volun…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: North Evans Volunteer Fire Company, NY (+ 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
Lanoka Harbor, NJ
FDID
15061

Staffing vs the New Jersey average

How Lanoka Harbor Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #127 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,935 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

Lanoka Harbor Volunteer Fire Department is 1.8% of Ocean County roster mass

The county lists 62 departments totaling 2,730 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 63% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

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

Photo-finish peer: North Evans Volunteer Fire Company, NY (+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.