Department profile
Career (Paid)Marine Corp Air Station Cherry Point Fire Department
Cherry Point, NC · Craven County. Marine Corp Air Station Cherry Point Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 43 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 43
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Marine Corp Air Station Cherry Point Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the North Carolina average.
- Top 24%
- national personnel size
- +65%
- vs. North Carolina 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.
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.
Marine Corp Air Station Cherry Point Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Cherry Point, NC (Craven County), with 3 stations and 43 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,330 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,330 of 22,440
- NC personnel rank #237 of 932
- 6.98 stations per 100 personnel
- 19 other listed departments in Craven County
Marine Corp Air Station Cherry Point Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
43 Top 24% higher than 76% 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 02502 · Marine Corp Air Station Cherry Point Fire Department, NC 43 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 43
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #5,330
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Gladstone
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Gladstone Fire Department, MO (+ 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 NC department.
- Marine Corp Air S… (this dept) 43
- High Blue Hills, CT 43
- Near Gladstone, MO 43
- Near Rainbow Volunteer…, PA 43
- Near Harrington Park, NJ 43
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Cherry Point, NC
- County
- Craven County
- FDID
- 02502
Staffing vs the North Carolina average
How Marine Corp Air Station Cherry Point Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #237 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,330 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 131
- NC departments
- 1,534
County roster fringe
Marine Corp Air Station Cherry Point Fire Department is 6.8% of Craven County roster mass
The county lists 27 departments totaling 637 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 22% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
6.98 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 43 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Gladstone Fire Department, MO (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 43 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NC department.