Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

New Carlisle Fire Department

New Carlisle, IN · St Joseph County. New Carlisle 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

New Carlisle Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Indiana average.

Top 18%
national personnel size
+117%
vs. Indiana 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
New Carlisle 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

New Carlisle Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving New Carlisle, IN (St Joseph 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 #3,978 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #3,978 of 22,440
  • IN personnel rank #71 of 589
  • 2.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 17 other listed departments in St Joseph County

New Carlisle 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 71009 · New Carlisle Fire Department, IN 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 #3,978
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Everett Volunteer…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Everett Volunteer Fire Company, 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 IN department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
New Carlisle, IN
FDID
71009

Staffing vs the Indiana average

How New Carlisle Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Indiana. In-state it ranks #71 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,978 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 117% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
94
IN departments
969

County roster geometry

St Joseph County HIFLD mix around New Carlisle Fire Department

St Joseph County: 22 departments, 454 personnel (9 volunteer / 3 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 91% of departments. County / state rollup.

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

Photo-finish peer: Everett Volunteer Fire Company, PA (+0 personnel).

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

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Osceola Volunteer Fire Department
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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 IN department.