Department profile
Career (Paid)Naval Air Engineering Station Fire Department-Dod
Lakehurst, NJ · Ocean County. Naval Air Engineering Station Fire Department-Dod is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 54 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 54
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Naval Air Engineering Station Fire Department-Dod pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the New Jersey average.
- Top 15%
- national personnel size
- +50%
- 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 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.
Naval Air Engineering Station Fire Department-Dod is a Career (Paid) department serving Lakehurst, NJ (Ocean County), with 1 station and 54 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,368 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,368 of 22,440
- NJ personnel rank #100 of 487
- 1.85 stations per 100 personnel
- 20 other listed departments in Ocean County
Naval Air Engineering Station Fire Department-Dod vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
54 Top 15% higher than 85% 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 ND003 · Naval Air Engineering Station Fire Department-Dod, NJ 54 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-UNK · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MID 54
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-UPPER #3,368
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Clay Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Clay Volunteer Fire Department, KY (+ 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 NJ department.
- Naval Air Enginee… (this dept) 54
- High Dixfield Fire Com…, ME 54
- Near Clay Volunteer, KY 54
- Near Dekalb, IL 54
- Near Denison Fire Depa…, TX 54
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Lakehurst, NJ
- County
- Ocean County
- FDID
- ND003
Staffing vs the New Jersey average
How Naval Air Engineering Station Fire Department-Dod's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #100 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,368 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 70
- NJ departments
- 999
County roster fringe
Naval Air Engineering Station Fire Department-Dod is 2.0% 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.
1.85 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 54 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Clay Volunteer Fire Department, KY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 54 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NJ department.