Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

New Castle Fire Department

New Castle, IN · Henry County. New Castle Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 32 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.

32
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

New Castle Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Indiana average.

Top 41%
national personnel size
+39%
vs. Indiana 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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
9/100
New Castle 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 F
10.7 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
32 personnel · 3 stations

New Castle Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving New Castle, IN (Henry County), with 3 stations and 32 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #9,227 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #9,227 of 22,440
  • IN personnel rank #198 of 589
  • 9.38 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 16 other listed departments in Henry County

New Castle Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

32 Top 41% higher than 59% 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 33012 · New Castle Fire Department, IN 32 personnel · 3 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 32
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #9,227
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Vernon Center Vol…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Vernon Center Volunteer Fire Department, NY (+ 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 IN department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
New Castle, IN
FDID
33012

Staffing vs the Indiana average

How New Castle Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Indiana. In-state it ranks #198 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,227 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 39% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
94
IN departments
969

County staffing outlier

Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Henry County

County mix is mostly volunteer (10 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.

9.38 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 32 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Vernon Center Volunteer Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide career peers near 32 personnel

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