Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Livingston Fire Department

Livingston, NJ · Essex County. Livingston Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 75 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.

75
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Livingston Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the New Jersey average.

Top 7%
national personnel size
+108%
vs. New Jersey average
3
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
54/100
Livingston 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 C
25 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
75 personnel · 3 stations

Livingston Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Livingston, NJ (Essex County), with 3 stations and 75 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,674 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #1,674 of 22,440
  • NJ personnel rank #52 of 487
  • 4.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 24 other listed departments in Essex County

Livingston Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

75 Top 7% higher than 93% 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 07100 · Livingston Fire Department, NJ 75 personnel · 3 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 75
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,674
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Indian Head Volun…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Indian Head Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad Incorporated, MD (+ 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
Livingston, NJ
FDID
07100

Staffing vs the New Jersey average

How Livingston Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #52 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,674 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 108% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
70
NJ departments
999

County roster fringe

Livingston Fire Department is 3.6% of Essex County roster mass

The county lists 36 departments totaling 2,107 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 44% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

4.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 75 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Indian Head Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad Incorporated, MD (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 75 personnel

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